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'December 1963 Connecticut College ~Alumnae JX!ws Connecticut College Alumnae News
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE
CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION
VOLUME XLI Executive Board of the Alumnae Association NUMBER 1 DECEMBER 1963 President: ELIZABETH J. DUTTON '47
First Vice President: 3 Radiation Biology: What and Why / by John Kent ELIZABETH ROCKWELL CESARE '52 8 Honors Study / by Amelia Patt '63 Second Vice President: Fati ELEANOR HINE KRANZ '34 9 The Flower-Women / by Amelia '63 12 Alumnae Day Secretary: ROLDAH NORTHUP CAMERON '51 14 Men, Women, and The Feminine Mystique / by Treasurer: MARJORIE LAWRENCE WEIDIG '45 Peter Seng Directors: JANET BOOMER BARNARD '29 18 Introducing the. New Freshmen / by M. Robert EDITH PATTON CRANSHAW '41 Cobbledick WINIFRED FRANK HAVELL '38 MARY ANN WOODARD THOMP. 21 Books SON '50 23 Letters to the Editor Trustees: JANET M. PAINE '27 24 In Memoriam CAROL 1. CHAPPELL '41 25 The Trustees' Corner / by Mary Foulke ivrorriss0!l WINIFRED NlES NORTHCOTT '38 26 The Treasurer's Report Chairman of Alumnae Fund: PATRICIA WERTHEIM ABRAMS '(,0 28 Class Notes
Chairman of Nominating Committee: 41 Club Presidents JANET FLETCHER ELLRODT '41
Chairman of Finance Committee: TOM INGLE PRISCILLA PASCO '39 Cover by Department of Art Chairman of Scholarship Committee: Connecticut College WINIFRED NIES NORTHCOTT '38
Executive Secretary: Editor: CHARLOTTE BECKWITH CRANE '25 CORINNE MANNING BLACK '47, Connecticut College 182 Western Way, Princeron, N. ].
Pu~lj~hed by the Connecticut College Alumnae As- socranon at Sykes Alumnae Center, Connecticut Editorial Board: College, New London, Coon., four times a year in December, March, May and August. Subscription MARION VIBERT CLARK '24, Class Notes Editor pr~ce $2 per year. Second-class postage paid at MARJORIE LAWRENCE WEIDIG '45, Business jl,lIallrtger Princeton, New Jersey. Send Form 3579 to Sykes ROLDAH NORTHUP CAMERON '51 Alumna:: Center, Connecricut College, New London, Connecticut. AAC Member. RUBY ZAGOREN SILVERSTEIN '43 RHODA MELTZER GILINSKY '49 RADIATION BIOLOGY: WHAT AND WHY
an important, new addition to the curriculum ADMISSION RESTRICTED Do Not Cross This lin. Without: P(RMISSION Of' lNST~UCTOR {WlAR1N& POCKET DOS1M~TER BY JOHN KENT CHAIRMAN DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY
Radiation Biology students check in for lab work beneath the "unfriendly sig-n" They exchange coats for eprons and, to the left, pick 1tP dosimeters.
3 RADIATION BIOLOGY continued
Students discuss an exoerimen the counting room with Professor K
But a few short years ago, in what must have been horror of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the medical Stl '5 one of the friendliest suites of rooms in New London of their survivors stimulated an awareness of the incrc 1 HaH, students planned, prepared, and served meals :.15 importance of the biological effects of radiations. part of their work in Home Economics. These rooms, Radiation biology is concerned primarily with X~ vI roday, lie behind what has been called the most unfriendly gamma rays, neutrons, electrons, or other subatomic pal- sign on campus. Where once students and faculty could ricies emitted by unstable atoms or created "artificially." eat roger her, the ruling dictum is now, "Keep everything A~ these traverse living cells, the radiations transfer their OUt of your mouth." The clicking of silverware and energy to the aroms and molecules of the living proto- dishes has been replaced by that of radiation monitoring plasm. The resulting changes in these protoplasmic mole- instruments. This is the radiation laboratory. A decade cules then may cause alterations in the chemistry, the ago, even a modest installation such as this would have physiology, and even the structure of the cells. This been all bur unknown in a liberal arts college and would cellular damage may in rum be reflected in the degree have been somewhat exceptional even in a university and type of damage suffered by the entire organism. biological department. A course planned for undergraduate biologists must Radiation biology is very old in the sense that all include more than just biology. Intelligent, safe work Jiving things have been subjected ro damaging bom- with radiations and the materials emitting them begins bardment by radiations from without and within since with at least an introductory knowledge of atomic phys- life appeared on earth. Even the awareness of radiation ics. It is not enough to know the mechanics of operating injury is nor new to the atomic era. Roentgen's dis. various types of equipment used to detect and count covery of X-rays and the isolation of radium by the Curies radiations. The student, through personal experience, were quickly followed by the occurrence of radiation burns. must learn the advantages and disadvantages of each. The study of radiation damage to living organisms be- She must be introduced to the physical interactions of gan at once. For half a century, however, radiation radiations with matter and thus to such problems :IS biology remained a field of advanced instruction and radiation scattering, secondary radiations and their con- research. With the dawning-or better, the blossoming-c. trol, and the absorption of radiations. A knowledge of of the atomic age, radioactive materials became avail- the rate of radioactive decay is essential whether one able on a scale never before possible. The widespread wishes to determine radiation dosage from radioactive use of these materials in industry, medicine, research, and materials taken internally, or plans an experiment using for military purposes increased the possibilities for radia- radioactive tracer molecules, or jusr purchases, uses, tion exposure and injury. Above all else, perhaps, the srores, and disposes of radioactive isotopes. This involves 4 CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ALUMNAE NEWS Photos by Perry Stttdios
understanding the concept of physical half-life, the time in which half of any number of radioactive atoms will, in releasing radiations, change to anorhcr species of atom. Students of biology must also understand the behavior of radioactive materials within living organisms. The dis- appearance of radioactive isotopes, in this environment, is no longer just a matter of physical decay, but occurs as a result of excretion, respiration, and the shedding of hair or leaves. The concept of another half-life, the biological half-life, therefore becomes significant in planning and carrying out experiments. The fate of radio- active materials within living organisms affects the design of experiments and the prediction of radiation damage. The class therefore studies the distribution of various materials among the organs of the body, within the cells and tissues of these organs, and among the chemical constituents of the cells. The student thus develops an appreciation for the utility as well as the dangers in- herent in the avid accumulation of radioactive iodine in the thyroid gland, or the deposition of radioactive phos- phorus, calcium, strontium, and radium in the bones, or the encorporation of radiophosphorus in the genetic ma- terial itself. The remaining weeks of the course deal more directly with the biological effects of radiation. The students pro- 1 student learns to »se a mirror and remote pipetter to measure ;i/ft transfer radioactive solutions behind 11 wall of lead bricks. duce and see structural evidence of radiation injury to cells. They study the genetic effects of irradiation through observing the increased mutation rate resulting from ir- radiation of bacteria. Finally, as the piece de resistance for the semester, the class is shown the effects of whole body irradiation: radiation sickness, and the accompany- Collecting dried samples to take to the cottntillg room ing pathological changes produced in the organs, the tissues, and the blood. In this course, as with any other involving the use of potentially hazardous materials, the question of safety is always foremost whether one is planning a laboratory, its equipment, or an experiment. In actual fact, because of the long period of time which may pass before radia- tion damage becomes apparent, more time, effort, and money were expended in relation ro the degree of danger than would have been true for a laboratory in which more usual (and, perhaps, even more dangerous) chemicals were to be used. Materials and construction of floors, bench tops, sinks, and work-trays were selected for ease of re- moving any probable contamination. In operating the laborarory, disposable plastic aprons and gloves are worn to protect students' clothing and persons from contarnina- tion. Regular surveys or searches for contamination with radioactive materials are made with a portable survey meter. The radiation level in both laborarory and counting rooms is continuously monitored. Any person working in the laboratory must wear pocket dosimeters to detect and record any personal radiation exposure. Whenever
5 DECEMBER 1963 Below. A student discards a contaminated plastic glove after having handled radioactive materials. The other student places samples under heat lamp to dry.
an experiment requires the use of several isotopes ring the same laboratory period, the five pairs of s -;nrs work far enough apart to prevent significant e. to the radiations from more than one source at c -e. Even the quantities of isotopes available to studen re so small that they could have been purchased 0 .e open market, without a license, by any individual sru.. r. The srock supplies of radioactive isoropes and all r, active wastes are stored under lock and key in a ren '_C room. The results have been almost too good. Seldom has anyone received enough radiation to record. The "most irradiated" student received in the entire spring semester but a small fraction of one percent of the maximal dose permitted per calendar quarter under Federal Regula- tions. The safety problem has not been too much ir- radiation, bur so little that it is not always easy to make students continue to obey safety precautions! Why should Connecticut College (and the Atomic Energy Commission, which granted funds for purchasing a large part of the equipment) invest space, time, and money in a course which is still not usual for a liberal arts college? \'(fe believe the field is simply tOO important to continue to ignore. The increasing use of radiations and materials emitting them, the increasing awareness of radiation injury, almost require a radiation laboratory facility in a school whose curriculum is responsive to trends of change in our culture. The time to introduce a change in our curriculum is when the need is recognized, not when its recognition by every other school forces us to keep up with them. There are other values to which this course, and many others, hopefully will make at least an indirect con- tribution. These fall in the realm of intelligent, respon- sible citizenship. I find myself more concerned abom the process by which a student arrives at a belief than I 6 CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ALUMNAE NEWS :eft. Dete1'mining 1'adioactivity of sample with :; flow counter.
Right. Checking out: the stlldem has checked hal1ds f01 contamination on monitor in back- eroend. and, having read radiation dose received tiMing lab, if any, is recharging her dosimeter before signing out.
lff to the next class. am about the belief itself. Citizenship based on convic- tions resulting from thoughtful decision rather than emotion, tradition, or just habit, is increasingly important B~~~. ;~~~,INGLO.BORATORYJ if in our complex society. Maintaining the basic right to WASH'" CHECK YOUR HANDS indulge in intelligent, constructive, public questioning REMOVE YOUR APRONS of our government on any topic increasingly requires in- 7 DECEMBER 1963 written it. I wanted to read it again, in French this "ne, and I wanted to know why I liked it so much. W n I BY AMELIA FATT '63 found out about independent honors study, I alread 'tad my topic. This was a difficult paper to write. Because the -ok itself is so large, I had to move back far enough to e it as a whole. I was dealing with a novel about the \'" ing of a novel. This is the roar of Proust's unusual manL.lla- Honors tion of time which is the first thing to strike me of his readers. Since the book already is what it set out to become, we are forced into a simultaneous visit of Study phenomena which are both static and in motion. A f wer is both perishable and perennial; a social group .s at once stable and shifting. The best example I can give you of this is the French title, A la Recherche dtt temps perdu" which is very poorly translated by "Remembr nee a challenging of Things Past." The French title suggests a simulran ms approach to scholarship vision of two kinds of time through the use of cliffe nt tenses: "a Ia recherche"-in search of-implies a 1- rinuous and repeated action, while "du temps perdt of lost time-implies a finished action, one that is ready in the past. This double viewpoint is subtly r' veloped throughout the novel, and resolves itself in ending which is also a beginning. Marcel, the narraror, is a man who wants to "know' other people. He wants to grasp their essence in a sort Amelia Fatt '63 tried to read Proust of intellectual possession which he finds impossible to when she was eleven, but he bored effect. Constantly thwarted by the kaleidoscopic mura- her. She tried again in high school bility of the people and places he desires to know, he and found herself "entranced:" comes co the realization that the only way to know an- A French major at CC, other human being is through art. If a man is an artist, she decided in her senior year his works of art offer to the public the world as seen by that independent honors study him. To Marcel, the only way to know someone is to see was the best way to learn more about Proust the world through his eyes-and this can be done only (not all smdenis have a definite topic through art. when they begin honors study). People who know about my study of Prousr tend to She devoted half of both semesters (double honors) feel that the big problem was that the paper had to be to independent stud'y and to writing written in French. This is not so; the problems were a IOO-page paper, which she discusses the same as with any paper: selection, organization, and 011 this page. "The Flower-Women/' a chapter some SOrt of logical development. from her paper, starts Many people have asked if I thought the study was on the opposing page, worth half of the senior year. The answer is yes; the study synthesized and brought together material from many areas which appealed to me. Most college courses tend to specialize and compartmentalize knowledge. In- USt abour everyone who reads has come across, at one dividual study enables the student to bring together again J time or another, a book which seems writren for him, all these separate threads, to put back together her world or more accurately, by him. That was what I found in after it has been so carefully taken apart. This kind of Proust: my own feelings, my own interests, my own way study belongs naturally in the senior year; it is a sort of looking at the world, written as I could never have of coda in which all the important themes are repeated. 8 CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ALUMNAE NEWS a remarkable study of Proust The Flower -Women BY AMELIA FAIT '63 of Proust's women. Women are also double beings. For example, look at Albertine: Albertine-mon mal-se relachant de me causer des souf- frances, me laissait-elle, Albertine temede-·attendri comme un convalescent. (SG 1118) The metaphorical relationships between women and flowers are the most important application of Proust's mg. Floral symbolism is common enough in literature, but floral symbolism. In A la Recherche du temps perdu, women are always no author has ever exploited as many of its rich possi- looked at, never known. They are a strange kind of visual bilities as Proust. Beside his Bowers, the "Eleurs du malo' phenomena: beautiful to look at-impossible to know. of Baudelaire seem inept and obvious, limited and naive. We get to "know" Marcel, the narrator, or Swann, or Proust's flowers toO can be "FJeurs du mal," bur how much M. de Charlus; bur we never get to know Odette, or more insidious they are! Albertine. This discrepancy is a result of the different Like the "Fleurs du mal," Proust's flowers are sexual, sensual, venomous, narcotic. But they also contain some- • thing of Ronsard's flowers: a sense of fleeting time, of Abbreviations in the text refer to the various time's length, of youth, of seduction. Like both these books of A la Recherche d" temps perdtt, poets, Proust associates his flowers with women-e-sc con- CS DU COTE DE CHEZ SWANN sistently, that we may call his women "flower-women." JF A I.'OMBRE DES JEUNES FlUES EN From the very beginning of the novel, flowers show FLEUR dualistic tendencies. In the passage on the hawthorns (CS CG I.E COTE DE GUERMANTES 138) we are presented with a combination of very strong SG SODOME ET GOMORRHE sensations: the hawthorns are simultaneously sacred- P LA PRISONNIERE symbols of the month of Mary-and profane, sensual. This F LA FUGITIVE tendency toward dualism (which assumes many forms TR I.E TEMPS RETROUVE throughout the novel) makes flowers the natural echoes 9 "The Flower-Women" is a chapter translated for the Alumnae News from Quelques Pleers d'un Bouquet, a double honors study for the French Department on Marcel Proust's A la Rech· ercbe du temps perdu. ways in which Proust uses sight. We "see" almost every- would have lived (and aged), bur an Albertine ere .ally thing through the eyes of Marcel; sometimes through young, eternally flowering. He recognizes the fl ting those of Swann or Charlus. Odette, Albertine, or even nature of Albertine in one of his first impressio . of Morel (who has his feminine side) are the objects of our the little band: "le plaisir que me donnait la petite nde sight. Nothing is ever seen through a woman's eyes; ... venair de ce qu'elle avair quelque chose de la fui des women remain always what is seen. passantes sur Ia route." (]F 796) (He has prog ssed The flower-women are always seen from the ourside. from the nafvete of Combray, where one can } ow" They lead intense biological lives, which present to their everyone, to a fascination for the "unknown" w men more intellectual spectators a series of external surfaces. whom he passes on the way.) Bur the miracle is '[hat like the flowers, their beautiful surfaces give the impres- "cette fuire emit ici ramenee a un mouvement relic nent sion of something marvelous existing within, of a capti- lent qu'il se rapprochair de I'Jmmobilire," (]F 7%) vating individuality which one wishes to taste, an essence The variability of Albertine is prefigured in the little which one wishes to possess. But it is impossible ro dis- band of girls to which she belongs-a whole consisting COver this essence--the only impressions of the flower- of parts which closely resemble each other: "on aurait woman which can be seized upon are a series of chang- die de deux bouquets separes qui auraient interch nge ing points of view. The flower-woman seems different quelques-unes de leurs Heurs." OF 814) This varial 'iry to each observer. To fix her, one must be an artist who is mirrored in Albertine's face, which never seems he can change her into the static pregnancy of metaphor, as Elstir does with flowers when he paints them. same twice. Marcel even has difficulty visualizing he exact locus of a beauty mark on that face. The principal Rower-women are Odette and Albertine. Gilberte fits halfway in between: she indicates particu- To Marcel, who searches for "essences," nothing cc d larities in the love of Marcel which develop later on when be more fascinating than Albertine. She is the personif its object is Albertine, while at the same time she is tion of flux; her relations with him a perpetual game f ineluctably "une nouvelle vanere de Mme Swann qui hide and seek. Neither her body nor her soul can be etair obrenue 1.1,a COte d'elie, comme un lilas blanc pres fined. She is as changeable as the sea against whr 1 d'un lilas violet." OF 564) The differences between Marcel first sees her. What he sees when he bends tows Odette and Albertine are greater, thus more easily pointed her to embrace her is ten Albertines: "cette seule jell Out. fille etant conune une deesse it plusieurs teres." (CG 36~ j In spite of the shortness of her life "elle semblait une magicienne me presentanr un miroir du Temps." (CG 351) .~., . Albertine is the fleeting "unknown" woman slowed down JUSt enough so that we may recognize her for the contradiction which she is. The very shortness of her life points up the many seeming changes of essence to which she treats us. Even her movements trace her muta- il) bility: NE of these differences is temporal: ~ ...... J~~,.; Chaque fois qu'elie deplaoair sa tete, elle creair une fem- Odette and Albertine embody different aspects of time as it me nouvelle, souvenr insoupconnee de mol. II me sem- relates co flowers. On the one hand, flowers lead very blair posseder non pas une, mais d'innombrables jeunes short lives. These are the beautiful fleeting creatures of filles. (P 72) whom Ronsard speaks, whose youth and beauty he sings This passage reflects another from the beginning of the so fervently. On the other hand, some flowers are peren- novel, which refers to the narrator: nials. Every year they are reborn, creating the illusion of Quelquefois, comme Eve naquir d'une cote d'Adam, eternal youth and beauty. Albertine, "la Fugitive," em- une femme naissair pendant man sommeil d'une fausse bodies the hrst quality, while Odette, who even at the end position de ma cuisse. (CS 4) of the novel when everyone is crushed with age has "te- Albertine is an Eve of Marcel's imagination. And like any flowered" ("ref/euri" TR 950), embodies the perennial. creature of the imagination, she comains many contradic- It is nor until he is about to forget her that Marcel tions. remarks upon the temporal element in his love for Alber- tine: "man amour pour Albertine n'avait ete qu'une If the process of flight is slowed down in Albertine, forme passagere de rna devotion a la jeunesse." (F 644) in Odette it is almost impreceptible. Her image extends Once in a while he re-experiences desire for her, bur he over the entire life of the narraror, and the changes we knows that what he desires is not the Albertine who perceive in it are more gradual. Odette remains the same for several years, and then she metamorphoses: she as- 10 CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ALUMNAE NEWS Sl -es another kind of beauty, and plays another role. The Here is the essence of Proust's woman. Supernaturally 'f: portraits of her which the narrator presents (the powerful in her hold over men, she is really a little leu in pink, Miss Sacripant, Zephora ) are for compari- than human. Her life is biological, plantlike. Sleep, a s. :~sake-to aid us in remarking her changes. Her ap- biological phenomenon, establishes a psychical distance r mces at most of the important parties in the novel between Marcel and his love, which permits him the ar ' similarly a gauge of the changes in her personality artistic and intellectual contemplation of a being who con- type of beauty. sists only of surfaces. Odette is as vegetative as Albertine. Her total lack of intelligence is even more apparent-there is no need for sleep to point it out. Odette cannot even write a letter! We learn that it is Charlus who composes them for her. Mme Verdurin refers to Odette as "un amour." (CS 188) The title of the book in which she so largely figures refers to her as "un amour de Swann." And she is treated in a similarly abstract fashion on her promenades along the Allee des Acacias, "Jardin elyseen de la Femme" (CS 427), where the men acknowledge her with "un r: grand salut thearral et comme allegorique, au s'amplifiair route la chevaleresque courroisie du grand seigneur in- t re vrvre. clinanr son respect devanr la Femme." OF 640) Odette is not an individual like Swann, Charius, or Marcel. She is a generalizarion of the idea of woman. She is an abstraction, a composite entity, a love. She is the eternal loved one as Albertine is the eternal woman one does not know-an amalgam of all the passers-by whom Marcel rendue de la tete aux pieds sur mon lit, dans nne at- sees along his way. It is her composite nature which irude d'un naturel qu'on n'aurair pu inventer, je lui makes Albertine seem always in flux-she is really hun- rouva.is I'air dune longue tige en fieur qu'on aurait Jisposee Ia; et c'erair ainsi en effer: Ie pouvoir de rever dreds of women. Odette changes more slowly. A love cue je n'avais qu'en son absence, je ie rerrouvais a can last for several years; a passer-by is gone in several 'cs instants aupres d'elle, comme si, en dormant, elle minutes. erair devenue une plante. Par Ia, son sommeil realisair, The association of women with flowers suggests also dans une certaine mesure, la possibilire de I'amour: certain sexual resemblances. Like women, flowers attract seul, je pouvais penser it elle, mais elle me manquair, with physical ruses. The elaborate dress of Mme Swann, je ne la possedais pas; presenre, je lui parlais, mais etais trop absent de moi-meme pour pouvoir penser. Quand so often described as flower-like, is a ruse to attract men. elle dormait, je n'avais plus it parler, je savais que je The sexual parallel is most insistent, however, in the n'etais plus regarde par elle, je n'avais plus besoin de phrase by which Odette and Swann refer to physical vivre it la surface de moi-meme. possessIOn: "la metaphore 'faire catleya.''' (CS 234) En fermanr les yeux, en perdanr la conscience, AL- Swann "esperajt que c'etait la possession de cette bertine avait depouille, l'un apres l'amre, ces differents femme qui allait soerir d'enrre leurs larges perales mauves." caracteres d'humanite qui m'avaient deQu depuis Ie jour ou j'avais fait sa connaissance. Bile n'etait plus (CS 234) animee que de la vie inconsciente des vegetaux, des Bur Proust does not content himself with making com- arbres, vie plus differente de la mienne, plus etrange, parisons between Odette and Bowers-he surrounds her et qui cependant m'apparrenait davantage. Son moi ne with a bouquet: s'echappait pas it taus moments, comme quand nous callsions, par les issues de la pensee inavouee et du re· Dne grande cocotte, comme eIIe avait ete, vit beaucoup gard. EIle avait rappeIc it soi tour ce qui d'eUe etait pour ses amanrs, c'est-a.-dire chez elle, ce qui pelit la au dehors; dIe s'etait refugiee, enclose, resumee. dans conduire a vivre pour elle .. ie point culminant de son corps. En la tenant sous mon regard, dans mes sa journee est celui non pas au elle s'habille pour Ie mains, j'avais cette impression de la posseder tout en- monde, mais ou elle se deshabille pour un homme. tiere que ie n'avais pas quand eUe erait reveillee. Sa OF 593) (Flowers too are always undressed.) vie m'etait soumise (P 69) Ce genre d'existence impose l'obligation, et flOit par Ce que j'eprouvais alors, c'etait un amour aussi pur, donner Ie gOlit, d'un luxe secret, c'est·a-dire bien prf~s aussi immateriel, aussi mysterieux que si j'avais ete d'etre desinreresse. Mme Swann l'etendait aux Beurs. devant ces creatures inanimees que sOnt les beaures de OF 594) la nature. (P 70) continued on page 22 DECEMBER 1963 11 Photo! by Perry Studio! How to spend a delightful day on campus Above right. President Shain chats Ii/ilh a visiting alltml1a. Right. Prospeaioe Jtltdent! listen at- tentively to Dr. Cobb/edick. 12 Left. Prospective students talk over the merits of cc. Below. Elizabeth Dutton '47, president of the Alumnae Associeiion, 'With Carol Hilton Reynolds '55, preJident of the CC Club of Hartford. ALUMNAE DAY was one of those incandescent October days: warm and sunny with a touch of frost in the air, leaves drift- ing slowly from burnished elms, the smell of crisp ripening apples, and the sure knowledge chat. blue gentians must be A·umnae Day hiding along some sunny wall. It was exciting to return to campus, ro explore old haunts and visit new ones. Especially interesting was the renovated Quad-Plant, Blacksrone, and Branford-replete with new tile, and paint and fixtures, and most attractive living rooms. These dorms are now better than ever, and students are happily in residence. Over one hundred prospective stu- dencs listened to Me. Cobbledick speak in Hale Lab. They were entertained at lunch in the dining rooms, swam in the pool, and thoroughly enjoyed a preliminary glimpse of the College. No one seemed to be in a hurry, yet much was accomplished. A meet- ing for Reunion chairmen was well attended. The Alumnae Day Lunch- eon, most ably and charmingly pre- sided over by Elizabeth Dorton '47, president of the Alumnae Associa- non, brought together many old friends. President Shain spoke briefly, welcoming alumnae to the College and stressing the importance of alumnae as interpreters of the College. The last event in a delightful day was a fascinating talk on Radiation Biology by Professor John Kenr [rhe talk appears in full beginning on page rhreeJ . BY ELIZABETH DAMEREL GONGAWARE '26 f a bachelor may be allowed an opinion on such d.elica~e BY PETER SENG Imatters, I would like to comment on Betty Frieden s DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH The Feminine Mystique, which has caused a considerable stir among married women in American society. The book appears to have had its greatest impact on women college graduates between the ages of 25 and 45, a genera- tion of women who were supposed to reap the fruits of equal rights won for them by their sisters of the prev- ious generation. Bur something has gone sadly awry; for provocative criticism most of these women college graduates, having been given for the first rime in large numbers an education exactly of discontented housewives equivalent to that which America gives to its young men, have settled for the role of wife, housewife, and mother. and of CC students The concern with which they once pursued their academic who aspire to marriage above all courses has been shelved like their diplomas; what they learned at college grows out-of-date and dusty, and they have settled for the more "practical" responsibilities of their triple rdIe. They have settled for it, but they are nor content with it-many of them-hence the stir that ~Ien reaches even a bachelor's ears; hence the impact of Mrs. Frieden's book: she cries "Rope!" in the house of a man who's been hanged. My evidence that all is not well in intellectual suburbia Women comes largely from The Feminine Mystique; obviously Mrs. Friedan gets to talk more (and more intimately) to housewives and morhers than I do. But I have also been and The able ra confirm many of her judgments by talking with married colleagues, with Faculty wives, and, perhaps most importantly, with married college gradrares who are Out- side rbe college community. Whar they have told me in- Feminine Mystique dicates that there is a great deal of seething going on benearh rhe placid surface which the college-educated housewife presents to her husband along with the martini when he returns from the office. I have learned enough, at any rare, to feel safe in advising rhe college graduate who feels unaccountably discontented with her married lor to rry on The Feminine Mystique for size. The gist of Mrs. Priedan's book is that American women have been told that rbeir highesr personal ful- fillment is to be found in the triple role of wife, house- wife, and mother; she believes that American women have been conned into think ing rbar rrue femininity is to be achieved exclusively in a marriage contract. This doctrine 1-16WTo 1>E is the "feminine mystique," and it is as old as Eve. It A GOOl> has been pounded into the consciousness of American <.KyiHING women from their earliest years. Playing with dolls and playing house are their earliest practice steps; teen-age and pre-teen-age dating and "going steady" are more serious preparations for their all-important future role; and today college has become the moment of truth, the Mary-go-around where they are to snatch the golden ring. In theory, there is nothing wrong wirh the doctrine. Mr. Seng invites comments on his article from alumnae. Letters should It has provided rhe survival and welfare of the human be addressed to: Editor, CC Alumnae News, Skyes Alumnae Center, Connecti- 14 cut College, New London, Conn. of her everyday life. She writes [hat gradually she came race for thousands of years. In practice, however, it does to find that "something is wrong with the way American not seem to be working very happily in modern Amer- women are trying to live their lives today." What was ican society. What has happened is that the doctrine has wrong was "a strange discrepancy between the reality of come into apparent collision with the new goals opened our lives as women and the image to which we were cry- to American women in the past quarter century by the ing to conform." As she examined the discrepancy more full realization of women's rights. As long as the great closely, it began to look like schizophrenia. majority of women were offered but a single goal in The schizophrenia, she discovered, showed its most life-marriage and motherhood-there could obviously aggravated symptoms in women who had once made a be no inner conflicts. Their biological and personal roles serious commitment to their college educations, but who were identical, as they still are even today for women then, when they graduated, turned from all this to under- who have never been offered anything else. take a feminine commirmenr to husband, home, and But with the emancipation of women in this century, with the opportunities afforded them to get not a finish- ing school, but a real college education, all sorts of new vistas have suddenly opened up. The modern college graduate still has her biological role in our society, bur the personal roles she may play are as various as those offered to men. As a result her life has now become something of a gamble-like a man's. Unfortunately women, a colleague tells me, don't seem to like much to gamble. Biologically and psychologically they are con- servative creatures. Thus no matter how the college experience may have stimulated ocher personal interests for them, they will usually end up trying to make their personal and biological roles identical-as though they had never been to college, or as if nothing there had ever really interested them. This psychological conservatism is plentifully reinforced family. It was the seeming lack of relation between the from outside. The women's magazines, advertising agen- tWO commitments that caused the problem: cies, the mass communications media, parents and in- Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she laws, and men in general are eager to discourage women made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slip- from fulfilling themselves as persons-unless that per- cover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her sonal fulfillment be in homemaking. Negative reinforce- children, chauffered Cub Scours and Brownies, lay ments of the feminine mystique are possibly even more beside her husband at night-she was afraid to ask telling: conventional bogies are the fluttery spinster and even of herself the silent question-'''Is this all?" the coarse, hard, masculinized woman. I think it is about Is this all? What more could you want? the ad agencies time that women begin to investigate the motives of and women's magazines and television programs and those who would turn them away from personal fulfill- movies and husbands and mothers and in-laws replied. ment; it is certainly time for them to realize that knitting You have a beautiful home in the suburbs, a husband who or truck-driving are not the sale alternatives to exclusive is faithful and successful, and four lovely children. You homemaking. have achieved the highest feminine ideal-you have ful- filled yourself as a woman. female schizophrenia There was no question but that she had achieved bio- The author of The Feminine Mystique is a graduate logical fulfillment. There was no question but that she had achieved everything the mass communications media of Smith College, 1942. She is married and the mother told her she should want. Why, then, wasn't she satisfied? of three children. She says that the problem treated 10 Wasn't it enough to be the support and stay of her her book did nor come to her as a sudden inspiration or husband, living his career vicariously with him? Couldn't flash of enlightenment. Rather, she came to know of the existence and huge dimensions of the problem only she take satisfaction in keeping her children healthy, well- dressed and well-fed, and training them in the social gradually when she found herself trying to cope, on the one hand, with the goals and ideals set up in her by her graces? Wasn't her spotless, well-ordered house the education, on the other, with the practical responsibilities praise of her friends-who also busied themselves keep- 15 Drawings by PRISCILLA BAIRD HINCKLEY '47 ing their houses spotless and well-ordered? If anything twenty years women have been getting married at pro- was wrong, it must be something wrong with her. She gressively younger and younger ages. They have been muse be rebelling against her feminine role. Down with dating and "going steady" from their early teens, some such unfeminine thoughts! "Tomorrow," she resolves, of them from their pre-teens. Some sort of social pres- "I will try to be a more devoted wife, housewife, and sure has to account for this socio-sexual precocity. Betty mother." Friedan would say it was the pervasive pressure of the Some women, Mrs. Friedan admits, can suppress the feminine mystique. problem in this fashion; bur she finds that many more Birth-rates are especially compelling evidence, It is women in America today are unable to banish the spectre. children that tie the young mother of middle income down They are suddenly appalled to discover that being a wife, to her home; yet since 1940 she has been having more housewife, and mother is not enough. They find them- and more of them. When the University of Wisconsin's selves caught in the trap and don't know how to break President Harrington spoke at Connecticut College re- Out. To forsake husband and family is out of the ques- cently, he said that a woman graduating from college tion. To pursue a career exclusively is unfeminine. must expect to give 20 years of her married life to the Finally, no one except other women torn by the same home. I suspect that Betty Friedan would say that 20 frustrations has any sympathy for the problem. The most years of that kind of Jife, exclusively led, is too high a unfeeling persons of all are those women who don't face price to pay. She thinks it can be cut to a fraction the problem themselves, either because they have repressed of that. it or because they have no other goals. When the struggle for women's rights was won in this The Feminine MyJtiq,lte details in its case histories the country during the first quarter of the present century, depressing results of such frustrations in some women. one of the results of that struggle was the founding of They keep their days filJed with unnecessary housework Connecticut College. Suddenly American women were simply to keep from thinking. Or a midafternoon tumbler free to follow any way of life they chose. It was not of inexpensive sherry (for a while) does wonders. Among only the right to vote that was won; it was the right of some of my friends it's known as "Mother's Helper." Or a woman to work Out her own destiny, to follow her if, perhaps, the husband is tOO jaded or preoccupied to own interests wherever they led, in short, to be an in- keep his wife feeling properly "feminine," maybe an dividual, a person, in the same way that men are allowed affair will raise her morale, Or trying to prove to herself to be individuals and persons. that she's a good mother, a woman may spend all the time she possibly can with her children, thereby worsen- college women tmeducable? ing her personal problem by tying herself even more firmly to the home, and also destroying their self-reliance It is bitterly ironic that on the very grounds where by her excessive mothering and over-proreccion. part of the battle for women's rights was won, their de- scendants, other women, are now frittering away the socio-sexual precocity fruits of that victory. For among the sadder facts of American higher education today is the fact that Jna1ZY Evidence of the existence of the feminine mystique, y01mg women entering college are almost eoneducable. however, doesn't only crop up among women in their These young women on the whole have high intelligence, thirties and forties who still have growing families, It certainly the equal of that enjoyed by their male peers. can be found as well in the statistics of marriage-age and Moreover they usually possess greater maturity and are birch-rates among women much younger. In the last more reliable than young men of the same age. These 16 CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ALUMNAE NEWS careers with at least moderate enthusiasm, but a year are all qualities that would seem to make women superior later they fali prey to what the girls call "sophomore candidates for higher education. Nonetheless many of slump." A partial explanation for this malaise may be our women students have been disabled by their families that they have been wised up by older students about and by the cultural myths of our society from achieving what really counts. Saturday classes on campus are deci- the full education for which they seem naturally talented. mated, because for many of the students the weekend away is more important. Excited and intense classroom "Don't be too inietlectuol:" discussions evaporate as students file Out the door-be- Freshmen enter Connecticut College having been told cause they are on their way to the post office. And everywhere conversations are monotonously punctuated "Yes, you can do whatever you want; but, of course, cer- with the omnipotent pronoun "hev-c-and only rarely does tain things aren't feminine, and if you aren't feminine it refer to a teacher. A problem Connecticut College you will fail as a woman. You will not get married." doesn't have is endemic in coeducational schools: bright The general prescription is, "Don't be tOOintellectual, be- girls refuse to volunteer answers in class for fear of cause men don't like that in women." Even the fields of alienating the duller boys sitting beside them. And all study are marked off. All literature, and music, art, and women students find it increasingly difficult to make :1 history are "feminine;" physics, chemistry, and mathe- serious commitment to their studies when they are con- matics are not.. And no subject should be studied with tinually being imbued with the sense that there is one egg-headed or professional tenacity. (It is a brave girl indeed who, wanting to be an engineer, enrolls at :MIT.) thing that is more important. The genius of the feminine mystique is the way it Needless to say it is not the College that lays down these rules for success; the Faculty and Administration puts everything in the form of simplistic alternatives. It have nothing but admiration for students who follow says you can be a serious student or a social success; you can do advanced work in graduate school or get married; their academic interests with personal commitment. you can be a career woman or a wife and homemaker; Rather, the mythology of the feminine mystique is in- culcated by a girl's family and friends, by radio, television, you can be bright or feminine. Bur why should this have films; by women's magazines; and particularly by the to be either/or? Why can't it be both? Why should a large advertising agencies, which have a vested interest in keeping American women domestic-and consuming. It is perhaps not too much to say that young women entering college today have undergone a mass brain- washing. It has been subtle, complex, and very thorough. They have been persuaded that the highest fulfillment for them in life is to be a woman. To be a woman, in this sense, is to have a husband, home, and kids. Nothing beyond this really counts; anything short of this is failure. value on social success at CC Students at Connecticut College seem to value their social successes far more than their academic achieve- ments; and I'm afraid that by and large their parents do, too. The great majority of our early drop-oms are for marriage. It sometimes seems as if there is more joy at Connecticut College over one girl who becomes engaged than over 99 who are accepted for graduate schooL Cer- young woman be required to choose between fulfilling tain shrieks and squeals on campus are merely the ulula- herself as an individual and a person, and fulfilling her- tions of the local tribal rite in which a dorrnirory cele- self as a wife-housewife-mOther? Men are not required brates the good fortune of one of its newly engaged mem- to make this choice. And isn't it possible that a woman bers. will be a better wife-housewife-mother if she first fulfills What Connecticut College students call "apathy" is herself as a person? If Mrs. Priedan's case histoties mean simply another symptom of the mystique. If getting a anything, they certainly seem to show that when a woman man is the most important thing, why bother about any- continued on page 22 thing else? Most freshmen enter on their academic 17 DECEMBER 1963 Introducing the new Freshmen BY M. ROBERT COBBLEDICK DIRECTOR OF ADMISSIONS 18 CONNECTICUT COlLEGE AI.UMNAE NE IN September the Admissions Office brought to a close another year as the new students arrived on campus. Our new students include nor only the freshmen, the Class of 1967, bur those transferring into the sophomore and junior classes and our exchange student from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. In addition we have seven foreign students-from Sweden, Switzerland, Japan, Hol- land, Austria, Finland, and Argentina. This is not to say that business and excitement have given way to inactivity in the Admissions Office. Now that prospective students are visiting the College in their junior year as well as early in the senior year, we have girls and parents appearing at our doors steadily and in every increasing numbers. Correspondence grows in vol- ume, and our visits to school meetings and alumnae meet- ings for prospective students keep us on the move, particularly during the fall months. Where do we stand as a result of our operations Mr. Cobbledick, director of admissions, with i\frs. Jeanette Brooks Hersey, new associate director of admissions. Her Position aoas last year? We now have a student body of 1.341 students, created. this year so that applicants to CC, inr:reasingly ntemerosss, made up of 1,303 residents students and 38 day students. will receive greater individual attention. This total represents the normal size of the College in the future, discounting fluctuations in the munber of day students. Too intellectual? What are the qualitative aspects of the selection of The Class of 1967 this year's group of promising and interesting freshmen? NUMBER Fear is often expressed that under present conditions of • 407 students, chosen from 1,150 applicants competitive selection, admissions people may over- GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION emphasize academic and intellectual readiness to the ex- .. from 28 states, the District of Columbia, British clusion of characteristics which make a student a desirable Guiana, Columbia, the Netherlands, France, person, liked and respected by Other students. Implied Taiwan is the assumption that these rwo sets of qualifications • 36.8% from New England; 40.5% from New are opposed and usually incompatible, that the choice York, New Jersey, and Penn.; 13% from the lies between them. It is averred that the able student Central States; 5.1% from the South; 2.4% is often strikingly different from the more "normal" from the West; 2.2 % other. student. The academically competent student is not necessarily SCHOOLING lacking in those qualities which also make her a desir- (, 60.2 % from public schools able person, capable of living successfully with other Iil 39.8% from independent schools students. The choice facing an admissions office staff is ALUMNAE RELATIVES not generally an either/or one, but rather one which (j 19 daughters, 14 SISterS,14 nieces, 28 cousins involves selecting individuals whose combined academic FINANCIAL AID and personal qualifications give promise of success both .. 10% of class receiving average of $1,209, in the classroom and in the dormitory. It is these qualifi- ranging from $200 to $2,375 cations in association that we look for and upon which our decisions are made. e 80% of aid is direct gram; 20% optional loan e one Procter-Gamble Scholarship; one General The Ildifjerentli girl Morors Scholarship (j eight students in two cooperative houses (a A plea must be made, however, for the "different" third coop will be built this year) girl, for the one who does not fit into a pattern. The continued on the next page DECEMBER 1963 19 college must always interest itself in this kind of student. lege these students will be held to high standar of Provided the differences which set her apart are not of achievement. a character or in such a degree as to imperil the devel- opment of her talents and abilities, she is a stimulating Advanced Placement addition. It would be a dull student body indeed if all the students were alike, easily and quickly adjusting to In our new freshman class we have evidence, . -sed college life and accepting it as they found it. on tests, of verbal and mathematical skills of ~ 'ugh Nonetheless, the main business of the college 1S order. We also have the largest number ever who -ave academic, and our chief concern is to discover applicants completed Advanced Placement courses (courses on a who give the greatest promise of academic achievement. college level taken in high school) and taken rests in them. This concern does not preclude, as I have said, the con- This year 75 students took 94 examinations, whereas sideration of other attributes that lend balance to the only five years ago nine students rook 12 examinations individual. However, it is imperative thar we chose the Not all students tested received exemption from require- best possible class from rhe candidates, for once in col- ments or course credit, but these figures do show that roday's students are better prepared than their predecessors. They have come to terms with college level work before their freshman year. This change is part of a general trend in secondary schools to enrich and develop the curriculum and to identify early the able student. Academic expectations have been raised all along the line in our schools. Students are entering college today with considerable academic achievement to their credit Finally, among roday's students are many, and their number increases every year, who have travelled around this country, as well as in foreign countries, with a considerable breadth of understanding. This activity is not all sheer tourism; a genuine attempt is made by many to penetrate below the surface of cultures of other COuntries. These new students, better prepared by their secondary schools and aware of the world around them, Lining up for the President's Reception. Over 1600 make a stimulating student body, capable of outstanding perSOIMtrue on campus the day the Presbmen arrived. achievement. 20 CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ALUMNAE NEWS On Education Stems and Suburbs: A Commentary on Schools in Metro~ One may take exception to some of Mr. Conant's recom- politan Areas. James Bryant Conranr, McGraw-Hill, 1961, mendations, for example that students should take an $1.95. examination in general education for graduate schooL But Slums and Suburbs is an honest account of twO of the most important problems of American secondary AMES B. CONANT's book on rhe high schools of the education: poverty and snobbery. The book is sociolog- Jslums and the suburbs anticipates by two years the cur- ically, and perhaps educationally, the most important which rene battle for equality of opportunity for the Negro. The the author has written. more important section of the book deals with the plight of the Negro in the slum high school. The quality of education is commonly, not always, poor. The srudenr generally does not learn to read and write at a functional Where! When and lVhy: Social Studies in American level; he is thus unequipped to handle more complex Schools. Marrin Mayer, Harper, 1963, $3.95. education which would give him a job. Academically frustrated, he leaves school and either takes unskilled ARTIN MAYER's book on the social studies in work, of which there is less each year, or he roams the streets. In one area, Mr. Conant found that of 125,000 M the elementary and secondary schools is the outgrowth Negroes between the ages of 16 and 21, 70% were out of his report to the American Council of Learned of school and unemployed. Societies. The author, neither a teacher nor an admin- The remedies are those which society must offer out istrator, has limitations to his background. But Plato of common decency. Mr. Conant finds true desegregation and James B. Conant did not run a high school either. in the urban slum difficult, if not impossible, and he With the perceptiveness of an experienced observer, makes a number of suggestions: improve the slum high Mr. Mayer looks at the social studies and finds a situation school; spend at least as much money in the slums as that is generally not good. There are exceptions in the in the suburbs; offer "educational and vocational guidance" work of Charles Keller, rhe John Hay Fellows, and the until age 21; teach thoroughly the basic skill of reading; Amherst pamphlets. More commonly, though, the teach- introduce good courses in the trades, such as auto ers do not know the facts; they fail to communicate; they mechanics and carpentry, even though the Negro then teach morals and "problems of democracy"; the texts are faces the labor unions; employ teachers with special train- abominable. Heard from a teacher: "When the British ing for slum high schools; try in every way to "enlist nationalized, they didn't pay for it," and from a text: the support of parents in the education of their children." "Most American Indians before the coming of Columbus Mr. Conant's final warning is now a fact: "Social dyna- and most of the Negroes of Africa may be classified as mite is building up in our large cities in the form of barbarians." unemployed out-of-school youth, especially in the Negro There are possible remedies: adopr the techniques of slums." reform from the sciences and mathematics; persuade By contrast, the difficulty in the prosperous suburb scholars at the college level to write for and work with is tOOmuch education, and often education of the wrong the schools; make administrators aware of rhe state of kind. This section warns parents that not all their chil- most of the social studies; give the teachers materials and dren will go to Yale or Connecticut College, not even methods. Most important, teach the teacher the facts: all the children of graduates. The colleges of greatest teacher education and teacher training must be con- prestige now prepare superior students for graduate sidered together, not as two separate pieces of a college school; the average student interests the prestige college schedule." only slightly. Parents should be willing to consider two- Why study social sciences? ". . history and the social year junior colleges, or even accept the fact that some sciences are tools by which we organize the chaos of sense children should not go to college. experience, and are thus emotionally satisfying to The talented student should take a rigorous program master. . they are either worth learning for the intel- of five academic subjects, such as Mathematics, not Pre- lectual competence they bring--or they are not worth paration for Marriage, and every good high school should learning at all." This is to say that the best reason for offer something in the Advanced Placement Program. studying history is history. Where, When and Why is But the chief problem of the suburban high school is a book of balance, sensitivity, and imagination. guidance and counseling both for parents and students. Both aptitude and achievement are necessary now for -WILLIAM P. HOLDEN acceptance to a good college. Chairman, Department of Education 21 DECEMBER 1963 MEN, WOMEN AND THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE continued from page 17 Some of the changes, roo, must come from the family. fails [Q fulfill herself as a person she runs the grave risk of being a bad wife, housewife, and mother. Perhaps when a girl marries early her father should go Personal fulfillment and biological fulfillment are not on paying her tuition instead of thrusting the whole mutually exclusive arernarives. They would not seem burden of her support off on her new husband. Perhaps alternatives to modern American women if it were not it is not necessary to keep the house in suburbia quite 50 for their adherence to the feminine mystique. They are spic-and-spau. Perhaps children once they get into school not alternatives for a man. The young man in college don't need all the attention they are now being given. today does first what he wants to do as an individual, a Yet none of these things can come about until women person; and then he does all the other things. In a society themselves reject the feminine mystique. They must where women accepted equality, this would be a woman's learn to say "No!" to it wherever it turns up. This means right as well. saying no to parents who try to push them into an early To be sure this kind of equality is more difficult for marriage, or who suggest that the purpose of college is c. woman than for a man. Her biological role requires "to find a nice young man." It may mean saying no to her to beer, nurse, and to a certain extent, raise her chil- that nice young man when he suggests that she should dren. Yet at such a time as women really 1{)ant full Jives drop out of college, marry him, and then take some kind for themselves, the means to circumvent many of the of job to support them both while he finishes preparing practical difficulties will be found. Graduate schools and for his personal career. It means a loud no to classmates colleges will set up nurseries to look after children while who think the only important thing to talk about is the their morhers are in classes; business concerns and profes- last weekend date. It means a chams of no's to modern sional establishments will be persuaded to give extended advertising and to almost all women's magazines. For it leaves-of-absence for pregnancy and early infant-care. The is only through all these no's that a woman can say yes possibility of part-time employment for women 10 genu- to herself as a unique and unrepearable individual, a per- inely challenging positions has hardly even been explored. son in her own right. THE FLOWER-WOMEN continued from page 11 Another striking instance of sexual resemblance be- her for a work of art. She is nor. But if she falsifies art, tween women and flowers is Rachel. Odette has been she also falsi.fies "reality." For Odette must always mix the mistress of many men; Rachel has worked in a whore- life with art, disorient her lovers as well as her readers. house. Thus Rachel too is surrounded by flowers: "Pour On a symbolic plane she effects this confusion by special- arriver Ii Ia maison qu'elie habirair, nous longions de izing in Bowers out-of-season, and in flowers which do petits jardins." (CG 157) To hide his embarrassment not seem real: when he recognizes her, Marcel turns away to look 23 DECEMBER 1963 In Memoriam Dr. Morris came to the College in 1917 under Presi- dent Marshall, when the College's first class was beginning its third year of study. When he retired in 1954, he ended a 37-year teaching career in the Departments of Philosophy, Psychology, and Education. His influence on alumnae from 1917 to 1954 was great. One alumna of the forties writes: "Our most stimulating dormitory discussions seemed to corne out of his lec- tures. He had a way of unsettling the complacent with his gentle, wry reflections. He was greatly respected, and his History of Philosophy course was heavily attended. You were considered a hopeless Philistine if you hadn't taken it." In recognition of his distinction as a scholar, the Col- lege awarded him the Lucretia 1. Allyn chair in Phi- losophy in 1945 and named him chairman of the then- joint Departments of Philosophy, Psychology, and Educa- tion. Dr. Morris received his B.A. and his Ph.D. from Yale University. He contributed frequent articles to scholarly and professional journals, and his memberships included Phi Beta Kappa, the American Philosophical Association, and the American Association of University Professors. He served for six years as Director of the Connecticut Society for Mental Health. A memorial fund has been established by friends of Dr. Morris. The fund will be used to purchase books on Philosophy and Education for the Frank E. Morris Me- rank Edward Morris, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, morial Collection in Palmer Library. F died on September 30th at his winter home in A Memorial Service for Dr. Morris was held in the Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. He was 74 years old. Harkness Chapel on October eleventh. • • • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR continued the new covers and format. I have no idea how comments, if any, have been run- JUDITH KARR '62 ning. My feelings are strong enough to want to go on Cambridge, Mass. record that I am against this so-called modernization! To the Editor: LUCY EATON HOLCOMBE '46 Simsbury, Conn. I found the May ISsue on the student especially fasci- nating. It gave me a much dearer idea of the modern To the Editor: generation of college students. MARION VIBERT CLARK '21 The Alumnae News gets betrer all the rime. I like East Stockbridge, Mass. 24 CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ALUMNAE NEWS of French and German, at the same time as the School of Dance and also housed in the North complex. Seventy- five such Institutes were held last summer in the United The Trustees' Corner States and were very helpful to language teachers in their areas. The Education Committee heard exceedingly interesting MARY FOULKE MORR1SS0N reports from our four representatives at the Danforth Workshop on Liberal Arts Education held in Colorado Secretory of the Board Springs last July. There were provocative discussions on such matters as the timing and substance of comprehen- sive examinations, for instance, and other subjects viral he October Board meeting heard with great interest T to Liberal Arts teaching. the report of Mr. Shain's first year of office. It has been a full year. We now have 1339 undergraduates (38 day students), 65 more than last year; 29 graduates working for an T he suggested plan for an exchange of students be- M.A.; 35 men and women in the Mathematical In- tween groups of women's colleges in the U. S. and stitute for Teachers; 84 special srudenrs. Total enroll- India is taking shape-the first visitors going to India menr-1487. The faculty number 132 (a good many this momh. During the next four years we will have part time), an increase of 14. a series of Indian academic visitors here and send tWO of All buildings are in use and OUf total income has our faculty to India. reached its peak, which means that new money must be The Board approved Mr. Shain's recommendation of found for future development. Miss EJizabeth C. Evans, head of the Classics Depart- We have reconditioned and refurnished: the three ment, as Henry B. Plant Professor, to succeed Miss Rose- original dormitories; the president's house; North Cot- mond Tuve. tage; we have completed work on the North complex It accepted, with great regret, the resignation of Mrs. and the Library wings, and built an addition to the Parker McCollester, for many years one of the Board's Nursery School. Thames now houses the English De- most devoted and discriminating members. partment and several Art Studios; Winthrop houses It was grieved to Jearn of the sudden death of Mrs. Sociology and Economics. Harrison Freeman, widow of the former Chairman of We have bought and reconditioned six houses for the Board who made so much of Miss Blunt's work pos- faculty, set up the telescope on Bill Hall and the Radia- sible, and herself a devoted friend of the College. Her tion Laboratory in New London Hall, made tennis courts, will gives us $75,000 in cash for the Library and when and are preparing to build the Lazrus cooperative dormi- the estate is settled some $77,000 more, most of which tory. And we have paid off the debt on Katharine Blunt is unrestricted. House. I said it was a full year. Mr. Shain has said, "Since we are coming to the end The School of Dance had a very rich and varied pro- of a planned phase of growth we should pause and gram, of which you will hear more later, and seems, assimilate our new size and its effects." We are all miraculously, to have broken even on expenses. It will agreed that progress cannot be haphazard; we must decide be continued in 1964. Miss Wiesner is really good. on a policy, a plan and priorities, and our next job is to We have applied for federal aid in getting up a Lan- guage Institute for next summer for high school teachers work them out . • • • CLASS PRESIDENTS, CLUB PRESIDENTS, MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD, ALUMNAE ASSOCATION PAST PRESIDENTS AND FORMER ALUMNAE TRUSTEES SAVE THESE DATES FOR ALUMNAE COUNCIL 1964 Friday, Saturday and Sunday February 28, 29, and March 1 25 DECEMBER 1963 CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION NEW LONDON, CONNECTICUT STATEMENT OF ENCUMBRANCES AND EXPENDITURES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1963 Budget Encumbrances ( Overexpended) Account Allcrmenr and Expenditures Underexpended Salaries $20,208.00 $20,492.16 $ (284.16) Operating expenses 5,100.00 4,678.52 421.48 Travel 5,600.00 5,086.96 513.04 Alumnae Fund 2,200.00 1,866.72 333.28 Alumnae News ...... 11,000.00 10,407.03 592.97 Equipment 1,500.00 1,702.45 (202.45 ) Contingency 542.00 319.23 222.77 Legal and accounting ...... 500.00 280.00 220.00 Alumnae award ...... 150.00 86.80 63.20 Totals $46,800.00 $44,919.87 s 1,880.13 STATEMENT OF SAVINGS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1963 Restricted Savings Accounts $39,514.59 Unrestricted Savings Accounts 2,446.15' Toral $41,960.74 '*' This amount includes an advance of $2,000.00 to publish the Alumnae Register. The above sratemenrs, in our opinion, based on a review of the Treasurer's records and bank statements, correctly reflect all expenses, both cash and accrued, as well as showing cash balances in the savings accounts for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1963. Very truly yours, William H Parr & Co. Accountants and Auditors /s/ William H. Parr, CPA Respectfully submitted, /s/ Marjorie L. Weidig, Treasurer Darien, Connecticut October 21, 1963 26 CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ALUMNAE NEWS The Agnes Berkeley Leahy Alumnae Award 1964 This award shall be made to one or more alumnae currently employed by the College. . '.0, in the opinion of their fellow alumnae, best repre- 3. Think of the alumnae whom you know, and choose nt those whose services to the Connecticut College Alum- Doe or more whose service and loyalty to and through the (: Association most deserve recognition. Not more than Alumnae Association seems outstanding to you. All names r -ee awards shall be made in any Doe year. will be screened by the Award Committee. The final selec- To qualify, candidates must have been members of a tion shall be made by that committee and approved by 55 which has been graduated at least fifteen years, and the Executive Board of the Connecticut College Alumnae ty not be current members of the Executive Board nor Association. J 'ease note: An alumnae shall be judged by her activity in any or all of the categories mentioned below. The candi- date should not know of the plan to nominate her, and therefore information in suppOrt of candidacy should be sought from other sources. cur ALONG THIS LINE uresent the name (s) of Class Address Name Class Address Alumnae Class A ctivities of Candidate (J) (Activities engaged in during student days are not pertinent to this information) Alemnoe CI1tb Activities of Condid-aiet s) Alnmnae Associenon Acsioities of Candidate (J) Other Information or Comment Use additional paper if necessary Submitted by class name Address Send before April 1, 1964 to: Mrs. Richard F. Havell, Chairman, c/o Sykes Alumnae Center, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut. 27 DECEMBER 1963 --- Editor of Class Notes: Mrs. Huber Clark (Marion Vibert '24) CLASS NOTES East Main Street, Stockbridge, Mass. Conn. Catherine Cone Ford also came for 1920 the picnic and meeting and told us a Mrs. Philip luce (Jessie Menzies), 2930 IN MEMORIAM little about her work with young people. Rolyarr Road, Petersburg, Va. Ella McCollum Vahlteich and her hus- Mrs. R. C. Massoneau (Eleanor Seaver), Agnes Jennings Duper '20 band, Dr. Vahlreich, attended the cocktail 45 Degnon Boulevard, Bay Shore, L. 1., party and Ella stayed for the banquet. y. Helen Crofoot '22 N. Dorothy Pryde, class treasurer, one of our Grandparents John and Betty Rumney Idell Godard '25 much traveled classmates, had pictures of Poteat have gone to make the acquainrance her trip to South Africa and Scandinavia of Jennifer Rumney Poteat, born on Aug. Ruth Brown '30 which she showed on Friday night. She 1 to their son John and wife. Daughter Mabel James Brown '57 left soon after reunion for South Amer- Sally and children visited them in Tryon ica, returning in the middle of Aug~st. after reunion. Bennett and Dave (Mar- She writes, 'Brazil was the country which garet DavieJ) Cooper stopped in Peters- brary in Stamford and she was children's amazed me most with its big industries burg for a short time on their way home librarian in the New York Public li- around Sao Paulo. Brasilia was thrilling from reunion. They visited their daugh- brary. for us visitors-a city in a wilderness." rer, Einon McKibben, and her family in Maud Carpenter Dustin, living in Rachel Smith is living in and, as California in the spring and go to New Randolph, Vt., claims that she spends her NYC Jersey and Pennsylvania twice yearly to time knitting mittens for her 10 grand- our new vice-president and reunion chair- see their son and his family. Dorothy children. Her son Bob and family from man, will arrange for our 1967 reunion. Matteson Gray retired three years ago as Washington state visited his parents in We had letters from classmates who production manager of the Journal at June. could not be with us. LaMa Batchelder Biological Chemistry at Yale. She is now We extend our sincere sympathy to Sharp, a very busy person who now lives active at home when not doing occasional Fanchon Hartman Title on the death of in Canton, Conn., wrote from her summer work in New York publishing houses- her mother. It is with deep regret that we camp and school in Rangeley, Me. Eleanor copy edirine. indexing books, proof reed- record the death on July 11 of Agnes [en- Haasis sent greetings and has written since ing. She also does church work. She is nengs Draper, a life-rime resident of Bris- telling how much she enjoys living in at her shore cottage in Madison, Conn. tol, Conn. Agnes was head of the Modern Aiken, S. C, "a blending of old South, from June until October. Dorry and her Language Dept. and taught Spanish and winter visitors, polo, year round garden- husband have two sons and four grand- German at the Bristol High School for ing, mild winters, hot summers, the new children. 35 years. Since her retirement she had vital Savannah River plant ., within David Hall, making a splendid recovery taught at St. Anthony's High School. reasonable distance from the Great Smoky from his recent operation, is back at work Mountains." Eleanor was given the again. He and Kay Hulbert Hall had a 1921 Woman of the Year award by the Cham- family reunion in August, seeing all their Mrs. Emory Corbin (Olive Lirtlehales}, 9 ber of Commerce of Aiken in 1962 for three children and six grandchildren. Son, Brady Ave, New Britain, Conn 06052 ten years of outstanding service in SCOut- John Hall, and Barbara are off to West- At reunion we were fifteen strong, ing, horticulture, and conservation. She POrt, where John will teach this year. twelve graduates and three ex-members. mentioned a Jetter from Abby Gallltp de- Al Horrax Schell has recovered from her Harriette JohnJOn Lynn had old college scribing the devastating Norwich flood operation. She and Fred have sold their pictures with her and Dorothy Gregson this spring. Dorothy If/ulf Weatherhead, Akron home and are to be in Colebrook, Slomm had our class graduation picture our most seasoned traveler, was in the Conn. until they build their retirement re- and a copy of the News issued at that time South Pacific at reunion time on a six and a treat in Charlottesville, Va. My husband which added spice to our reminiscences. half weeks trip. She writes, "We had a Phil has recovered from his bout with the Louise Avery Favorite and Dorothy Slocum wonderful trip, Hawaii, Tahiti, Samoa, surgeon. He is back behind the lens and are our new co-class agents. Dorothy has Fiji, New Zealand for two weeks, Aus- lawn mower and seems quite resigned to sold her home in Darien and now lives tralia and New Guinea." Her next trip his role of retired gentleman and being in New Canaan. Roberta Newton Blanch- will be to Africa. Doris Patterson German Mrs. Luce's house boy. Eunice Gates Col- ard, now class president, has her Master's had not returned from her European trip lier, after facing surgery since reunion, degree and is Director of Publications in in time for reunion. Gladys Beebe iHillard sounds as gay and enthusiastic as ever. the school of the Museum of Fine Arts in was also in Europe with her husband. Alberta Lynch Sylvester and Art spent Boston. Marion Adams Taylor looked very Matilda Allyn had very recently lost her the month of June in Scotland. Daughter young and unchanged, as did Helen Rich mother. Barbara Ashenden had news of Ann has a lovely home near Edinburgh in Baldwin. Helen lives in Washington, Laura Dickinson Swift, whose husband Ray the shadow of the Penrlands and from D. C. and my husband and I had din- retired three years ago and who spent six there Alberta visited Melrose and the Eil- ner and a delightful evening with her and weeks on the west coast a year ago, with den Hills, Roselin, and Edinburgh. Added her husband when we were visiting our a trip to Hawaii and the Seattle Fair. to this was the fun of occasional baby sit- married daughter in Hyattsville, Md. in Charlotte Hall Holton wrote from Corona, ting. Ann has been in Scotland seven July. Barbara Ashenden is still working, Cal. She has two sons, three grandchildren, years, is married to an insurance execu- has brought a house in Baltimore, Md., and and keeps busy with church, gardening, tive and has three sons. Home again and plays the recorder as a hobby. Marion book dub, and bridge. Rose .i\feyro1lJltz a visit from Peter Sylvester, his wife and Bedell Kelsey, who lives in Old Lyme, Freeman enjoys painting, weaving, reading two children. Pete received his doctorate Conn., came JUSt for the banquet, as she in psychiatry and archeology, listening to at Northwestern in June and has accepted and her husband were off to Martha's the position of Chairman of the Dent. of a fine collection of records, and bird Vineyard for the summer. Anna Mae watching. Ethel MaJOn Dempsey retired Philosophy at the Univ. of New Hamp- Brazos Cbaimers drove up from Hender- shire. Martha. the oldest daughter, is liv- from her library position lase year and sonville, N. C. with her husband Al and was highly honored and recognized for ing near Philadelphia. She has two boys then went on to New Hampshire, Ver- and a new baby birl and is active in PTA her years of excellent service. Your cor- mont, and upper New York before return- respondent and husband, Emory, had a very and church work. Sally, the youngest ing home. Al is actively interested in daughter, is married and living in Darien happy vacation in July. Son Albert was gliding. Anna Mae writes often of the acting at the Olney summer theatre in and busy all the rime. Alberta herself is beautiful country in which their home Maryland JUSt twenty miles from where still branch librarian in Starn fords' Branch is located. Lydia Marvin Moody came to daughter Susan is located in Hyattsville. Library in Springdale, Conn. After gradua- the class picnic and meeting. She still So we could be with Susan, her husband tion Alberta worked in the Ferguson Li- sings and keeps busy in Deep River, Gene and our four-year-old grandchild, 28 CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ALUMNAE NEWS Pamela, and also see AI's work at Olney. In August we went to Chicago to see our place of public entertainment. This sum- I still do a bit of acting now and then. new granddaughter. Carol and Jerry have mer they had visits from Imogen Hostetler Last year I played grandma in The Ameri- adopted a year and a half old girl, a Thompson and Larry Ferris Ay1'es and her call Dream at Trimry College in Hartford, beautiful child. Everyone is in love wirh husband who were en route to Bermuda. Conn., and I hope to do the mother in her, including her tWO new brothers. Barbara recently had a letter from Mary Come Blow Your Horn in January with Helene Wulf Knup and 1 were the only fttanita lY/allece, who spent one year at om local theatre group. Emory is pres- members of our class at Alumnae Day, CC and now lives in Muskegan, Mich. sed into service on the boards occasionally OG. 5. Rufus was with me. It was our Millie Doman Goodwillie and her hus- but prefers to do his part back stage. We first chance to hear and meet our new band will spend this winter in Cleat- are both still employed at the New Britain president. We thoroughly enjoyed it and water, Fla. Millie often sees Ruth McCas- General Hospital. 1 am the secretary in also the talk on radiation biology by Mr. lin ManhaU, who lives thirty miles away the blood bank and Emory is in the busi- Kent, Prof. of Zoology. in Concord, N. H. This summer she hac ness office. Deborah Jackson lives in Balti- visits from Marge Thompson and Hazel more and is enjoying her retirement by 1925 Osborn. Helen Hood Diefendorf and her traveling. She has taken trips to Charles- Mrs. Edmund J. Bernard (Mary Auwood), husband this spring visited Italy, Greece, ton, Mobile, New Orleans, Cape Cod, Tres Palmas, Apr. 9, 508 So. Orange Ave., the Greek Islands, Austria, Germany, and the Netherlands. In August they vaca- Provincetown, Nantucket, and Martha's Sconsdale, Ariz. 85251 Vineyard and has plans for many more. Caberine Meinecke Crawford and her tioned at Duxbury, Mass., where they husband Francis went to Honolulu in had a get-together of their entire family.c- 1923 June to visit their son FC Jr., their daugh- 18 in all from points as far away as Mrs. Rufus A. Wheeler (Olive Hol- ter-in-law Nancy, and Mary Ann 4 and Sue Colorado and Monrana. Helen had a num- combe), 208 First St., Scotia, N. Y. 12302 Ellen 18 months. They last saw them ber of good visits with Kay Bailey Mann Mildred Seeley Trotman writes, "Our Xmas '61. Their other son, Peter, is and Sis Angier Thiel. Connie Clapp Kauff- nursery school was very large this past out of the Army and home after three ma'/) is now living in Baraboo, Wis., where year-c-can'c get any larger unless we put years in England with a lovely English her husband is pastor of the Congrega- in elastic walls. We closed on June 12 wife. Cay says Fran is partially retired. tional church. Connie has four step-sons, with parties for 300 people. My oldest She sees Peg Meredith Littlefield fre- three of whom are also Congregational brother, who married Emetra Weed '19, quently. Grace Bennet Nuveen had the ministers. Besides being a member of just retired as Dean of Engineering at usual busy summer at home. Daughter many church organizations, she is active in AAUW and in a literary club. She Duke University. They had a big wing Anne and her two boys were at the ding for him in May and Dick and I Nuveen cottage in Michigan during Aug- spent August in Norwich visiting her sis- flew down.' Mary Ragsdale Wade hopes usc. Grace and her husband John spent ter and hod dinner one night with Lorena to get back to reunion some time but has two weekends with them there. Son Tim Taylor Perr'j, who spent the summer in Goucher to think of, since it was from and his wife have finished their year on Uncasville. Irene Petersen Ceiersoe and there she graduated in '24. This spring she Long Island ministering to two Presby- her husband are enjoying their retirement lost her mother. She has been doing local terian mission churches and have left for in Mexico, N. Y. Irene keeps busy with membership organizing for the new Ten- Brazil to try to organize the Young Life church and civic affairs and sometimes sub- nessee Fine Arts Center and Botanical Gar- Movement there. In September Grace left stitutes in the high school. Her son is dens in Nashville, known as "Cheek- for Geneva, Switzerland, to see their a lieutenant in the Air Force, stationed in wood." Helene lVulf Knup reports, "On daughter Margie and her family. Constance Texas. Betty Damerel Gongaware is a a recent trip abroad I visited with friends Parke!' has had two flights to Florida with part-time assistant in the Alumnae Office her mother, a delightful visit in Jackson- at CC and says she finds it a very stimu- and relatives in France, Germany, and lating spot. She has two married daugh- England. The highlight of the trip was ville with Att Kimball and her family, a a delightful day in London when Queen marvelous seven weeks cruise around the ters, Mary Bisbee and Emily Patten and Mediterranean and Black Seas, and shorter four grandchildren. Her son Robert re- Elizabeth dedicated a new science build- cently received his M.D. degree and is ing at Westfield College. Through an in- trips to Nantucket and Cape Cod, where she had a grand stay with Betsv and Jean now inrerning at Presbyterian Hospital in vitation from the vice-principal of the New York. Betty Lee has returned to her college, whom I had known when she Howard. I had a lovely summer in Cali- fornia with relatives and Friends-c-areas own home in Canaan, Conn. after three was an interim faculty member at CC, I years spent with an elderly aunt in Auburn, had the rare priviledge of attending both San Diego, Laguna Beach, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, and Lake Tahoe. One of the N. Y. Edna Smith Thistle spent three the dedication and a tea following at months this spring in Portugal, Spain, which the Queen's Welsh Guards furnished many pleasures was the annual Festival of Arts at Laguna Beach. France, and Austria. She lost her heart to the orchestra." Helen Higgins Bunyan Vienna which she considers almost as writes, "My life at present-very quiet beautiful as Paris. She was recently ap- with no telephones with sharp tinkling 1926 Katherine 1. Colgrove, 38 Crescent Sr., pointed to the Board of Directors of sounds, no shrill of ambulance sirens, and Bloomfield College. A very pleasant week. no emergency commands for doctors and \X'aterbury 10, Conn. Dorothy Cannon is still in Washington, end in October was enjoyed when Prances nurses. After seventeen and one half years, Green entertained ae her home Barbara I have left the 'Dr. Kildare atmosphere' for where she works for the U.S. Informa- cion Agency. She writes, in various Ian- Bell Crouch, Harriet Stone Warner, Ka'j the less emergent halls of home. Building Dauchy Broman, Amy lfIakefield, and your a small house now in Lisbon, Conn. de- guages, pamphlets which are distributed all over the free world in an effort to c~rrespondene. Mose of the guests brought ters us from any great travelling but we slides and we had pictures of grandchil- did meet the children in Phoenix in the make America better known and to com- bat communism. Lase year, she received dren, new homes, trips to Europe and spring. Our older grandson, George vacation jaunts. Harriet Stone 117arncr Thagard III, is a srudenr at Culver Mili- the agency's meritorious service award con- ferred by its chief, Edward R. Murrow. and Oscar plan to visit their daughter who tary Academy and the younger boy is is a missionary nurse in Southern Rhodesia. arrending Southern California Military This summer Dorothy had a five weeks Academy. Our only granddaughter is a trip to Greece, Italy, and the Middle East. 1927 first grader. The discipline of time and She recently bought a house where she order is not for her-she will probably and a friend are living, and she says she Mrs. L. B. Gatchell (Constance Noble), seek art as her mother, your class daugh- enjoys having a home of her own after 6 The Fairway, Upper Montclair, N. ]. ter, did. Sometime during 1964 we will years of living in hotels. Barbara Brooks Helen (Lemon) Beuemoieser, trustee move to Lisbon." Bixby and her husband had a fabulous of CC, is working in the area of civil lib- In July Rufus and I paid a surprise visit trip flying around the world from Hawaii erties, chiefly concerned with the enforce- t'l Ruth Wells Sears and her husband at co Japan and Europe and home across the ment of constitutional rights of persons Putnam Station, N. Y. We went through Atlantic. They experienced a little dif- accused of crime. She serves on the N. Y. their remodeled apple storage plant and ficulty in Vietnam when they found their boards of both the C. 1. Union and the Ruth showed us her collection of pitchers passports were not in order and they were Legal Aid Society. Also she sponsors and -over 250, some of them quite valuable. not allowed on the streets or in any assists law student groups working in this DECEMBER 1963 29 three years ago to help out. Her Dad is area and that of civil rights as well. Huntsville, Ala. 35801 blind but has learned braille and keeps Helen's law practice has led her into the Eleanor Wood Frazer's health is fine acnve. The Class regrets that it had not field of care and custody of children. On after a long year of slow reco.very.. Her learned before that her mother passed the Citizens Committee for Children and husband Ed, just over an operation, IS also away a year ago. last June jean Hamlet the Family Law Committee of the Bar recovering nicely. They spent the enure u'lialey wrote she had been confined to Association, she has shaped the direction summer at their shore home in Stone bed for six weeks, with tour more to go, of court procedures and law. She said her Harbor, N. J. after a glamorous cruise to extensive work has given her a chance to the West Indies in the spring. Woody sufrenng from infecnous hepatitis. She "practice as well as preach." "This reports a new grandchild, Elaine, born missed her daughter Lucinda's gradua- month," said Emilie Koehler Hammond, June 11 to Ted and Barbara. A card caIJ.le tion from college as well as son jcna- "is one lecture after another for me. I've from Karla Heurich Harrison from Pans. roan's rrom high school. Lucinda is just returned from Penna. where 200 club She and Gene were travelling "all over," teaching physical education in Maryland women listened to my terrarium lec- having taken their car with them this year. and. Iivmg with Jean's mother at Chevy ture; I had to use a mike!" In between They landed in Cannes and spent a week Chase. in September the docror sent Jean times, Emilie collects materials for her on the Riviera, then "did" France, Eng- to her mother's for further recuperation. terrarium business. In November she made land, and Scotland. In September Peggy jean still has a son at the Coast Guard about 1000 of them for Christmas sales. Bell Bee underwent a serious operation Academy in New London. Jonathan is In the spring she's scheduled to give ten but reports, "After years of aching legs now in Texas, having recently enlisted in more lectures on nature subjects. Amy when I'd try to walk, I can even do the rhe Air Force. Frances Tillinghast works Ferg#Jon Ceoecb's main consideration dur- Charleston again now." Peggy spent her on the Joint Economics Commitree of the ing the fall season was the church wedding summer in Marblehead, Mass. As Dorothy U.S. Congress, in charge of the publica- of her daughter Lois, CC '55, followed by Ayers Buckley has now moved into a lar- tions distribution. "The first function of a reception at home. Amy's other daugh- ger apartment, she and Peggy can be to- rhc committee is to hold hearings and ter, Nancy, CC '53, is corresponding secre- gether summers hereafter. They play scrab- puc out reports on the economy of the tary of the CC club here. ble, bridge and Yalirzee and are generally councry-c-Iike an M.D. taking the pulse Salty Carslake spent last summer in good company for each other. of the economic well-being," explains Spain while Buddy Elliott was entertaining Frances. While on a business trip to Cleve- friends in Main at her 100-year-old house. 1929 land, she spent a lovely evening with Nor- Among her many guests was Eleanor Ver· Mrs. A. D. Murch (Grace Housron ) , 720 11M Kennedy Man.deLl, meeting Norma's non. Nubs just won top award in the Luckysrone Ave., Sr. Louis 22, Mo. 63122 daughter who had been shopping for brides- Camera Club contest for her pictures on While Peg Berroegbs Kohr was in maid's dresses. Norma's husband has a Sidewalk Art in the Village, N. Y. Lib Florida last spring, Frances H'/ells Vroom "fascinating" after- 5 activity-playing with Fowler Coxe is proud to announce that represented our class at the Alumnae a combo made up of Western Reserve her husband's 50th book was published Council weekend Mar. 1-3. Fran urges all University professors. Fran talks oc- this fall: One Hour to Kill. They're rent- of us to explore college again by any casionally to Eleanor "Chili" Fahey Reilly ing a house on Hilton Head Island in means available. Her daughter Barbara is by phone but their orbirs in government South Carolina. Their fourth grandchild home from Europe, working and living in work are quite different. Fran owns a was born last June, making the score one NYC. Fran was busy all summer wirh small -t-apartment house in Georgetown girl and three boys. Mary Morton Fun- matters relating to the N. J. Diabetic "whose occupants are more interesting neil was about to have a grandchild at re- Camp. Ellie Neu-miller Sidman's daughter, than a bother." The class also learns be- union time. It was a boy aod last May Sandra Larsen, and her two sons spent latedly from Fran that Florence Afoxon he acquired a baby sister. Lib and Mary some time in Glen Ridge this summer Tomlinson lost her husband in June 1962. still see a lot of each other, often on the while Sandra's docror husband did his Maxey has sold her Framingham, Mass. golf course. Carolyn Hone Nichol.r re- basic training. The Larsens are to be house, is living at Brewster on Cape Cod ports on her three children, Lorrel IS stationed at Fort Lee, Va. All of Peg in a beautiful captain's house she has doing graduate work in architecture at Burroughs Kohr's children and grand- made "really charming." the Univ. of Arizona, Carol majored in children from California spent three weeks July saw the Murch family off on a math at Pembroke and is now with Anhu r at home this summer. Helen Stephenson month's vacation, the first real one my Little Co., Cambridge. Fred graduated lII'hite's husband is in the investment busi- husband has ever had. We began by from Hamilton and is Lt. j. g. in the Navy. ?ess in NYC. The second son Stuart, hav- visiting my relatives all along the east Edna Linz Barnes and her sister made a Ing graduated in June from Columbia coast. In Bryn Mawr, Penna., I spent an happy surprise visit ro their father on his Architectural School, married in Septem- enjoyable hour charring with Mary Scatter- 85th birthday. Edna's younger daughter ber a dose friend of his sister's. The and son-in-law are seeking another col- good Norris, who lives five doors from young ~ouple will live in Cambridge, Mass. where I did as a high school senior. Mary's lege degree this year. Her elder daughter near his work. The older son David is and family moved into the suburbs. Estrid daughter Anne is now doing research work with the foreign dept. of the National in biochemistry at Stanford Univ. A new Alquist Lund has changed her address City Bank of N. Y. He and his family from Ridgewood ro Upper Saddle River publication, "A World of Good Cook- have gone to Chile for two years. Both ing,' was written by Mary's freshman sis- N.}. Gertrude Carson. Weber shares d boys were graduated from Princeton. hobby with her hubby---mlinary art ter, Ethel Hulbert Renwick. While in New Daughter Allison was maid-of-honor at london I visited Connecticut's gorgeous especially foreign dishes. She is ~ her. brother's wedding. She is now in "windowsill gardener," growing all kinds campus and spent some time cooling off Pa~ls doing her junior year of study at on Rosemond (Roddy) Holmes Smith's of herbs from anise to wild thyme. She Reid Hall; Helen an~ her .husband hope patio. Her son and his family have been has a son, a daughter, a grandson, and a to see. their daughter 10 Pans next spring. transferred to New Jersey. Her daughter zranddaughrer. As presidecr of the CC We~dtng bells rang OUt in August for is living and working in Massachusetts. Club, your correspondent was invited to Sylvia Adams Cram, daughter of William On our way to Maine and Canada we have her oortrair in "The Gallery of Out- and Do~ Adams Cram. The groom and stopped overnight with Ethel Cook, whose standing Women of N. .l-" She rerurned hi,'; family are from Hawaii. His father mother has been quite ill. After leisurely from Jamaica, B.W.I., in time to put on was best. man. The bride's sister, Emily ~aking in the scenery of the Gaspe Pen- ~ slide show for the Club. Cram Meintzer from Virginia, was matron. insula. we headed west, stopping at Que- Note from CC: "Relucranrlv we've had of-honor. Dot's son Barrett 12 was an bec, Montreal, and Ottawa: crossing over to place the name of Lucile Gilma'l with usher. Sylvia. is an alumna of the Univ. into the States at Sault Sr. Marie. The our 'lost alumnae' which includes '27's of New MeXICO. Her husband is a senior Louise If/all Platber" Anyone knowing climax of our trek was six days scent 10 .the ~o1!ege of En~ineering at the same in Door County on the Wisconsin Pen- the whereabouts of these classmates kindly UOlVerSlty. Whi.1e Rebecca Rau was ~n notify the Alumnae Office. M.assachusett~ thiS summer she had lunch insula with more relatives. Tust recently we were in Kansas City visiting our new· with P~t .M'Yers. After ten years at 1928 !ltne estt:;randchild, Jeffrey Alan Anthony, born the. 111100lS Chtldren's Hos~,ital-School in Leila Stewart, 517 Ad ...ms St., S. E, C. Chicago, Becky went home to Minnesota in June. While there I talked to iHar-iorie (Smudge) Gove Studley, whose husband 30 CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ALUMNAE NEWS ding of Peter Freeman, son of Brownie and Connie Green Freeman. C. B. Rice and '32, '33, '34, '35, '36, '39, '51, '52, '53, '54, and 1911. At Kindler attended the wedding of Peg Bristol Carleton '29's younger daughter Susan in September. Make your plans now Both of your co-correspondents have visited CC recently. The Schoofs in early September had a tOO brief but wonderful III end include your husband those plans for visit with Dr. Margaret Chaney. The twins, Carl and Gretchen, were duly im- pressed with Mom's Alma Mater. We were en route from Martha's Vineyard, REUNION 1964 where Gretchen had worked all summer, to Shelter Island, N. Y. Took four ferries in one day. Rosemary took her younger Alumnae College: daughter, Marge, and three of her friends for Alumnae Dayan campus. The girls Thursday and Friday greatly enjoyed the Saturday program for prospective students and Rosemary enjoyed June 11 and 12 seeing Betty Clifton Ray, who has bought "Feast or Famine: Some Changes in American Destiny a house in Noank, Conn. and is a grand- mother. Anna Coirances Guida, our from 1934 ro 1964." champion world girdler, had a trip to the Class Reunions: Scandinavian countries last summer. Dorothea Simpson is Education Consultant Friday, Saturday and Sunday with the State Board of Education for the June 12, 13 and 14 Blind in Hartford. 1932 Mrs. Susan Comfort Masland, Apt., B-3, 371 Lancaster Ave., Haverford, Penna. is in the process of caking a new job kim, like me, went to the total eclipse Kay Cooksey Dimmitt continues as il- which may bring them back east. Louise area in Maine to see the eclipse and saw lustrator for the Bureau of Reclamation. Goodman Sk1'ainka has lived in St. Louis a cloud instead. Last May Kay won best picture in show, County all her married life. Her husband It is my sad duty to report that Rsab best oil, and first in landscape at the an- is a paving contractor who "still plays Brown, who was a subject cataloguer and nual art contest of the National League tennis." She has one son practicing law research assistant at Yale Library, died of American Pen Women, all for the same in St. louis while another is studying for on July 21. She had been ill most of this year. painting done on vacation in Hawaii. his Ph.D. in English at the Univ. of Kay's news came on a 1962 Xmas card Michigan. St. Louis proudly claims one 1931 featuring her artistic reproduction of Lake freshman and ten upper dassmen attend- Louise. Jane MacKenzie again toured the ing CC this academic year. Mrs. Herbert C. Schoof (Dottie Clurhe) , British Isles this summer before return- 'the cless extends its deepest sympathy 2730 Picardy Place, Charlotte 9, N. C. ing to her 32nd year of teaching at Wind- to Normah Kennedy Mandell on the loss Mrs. Arthur G. Lange (Rosemary Brewer), ham High in Willamantic. Mercia May of her father this spring; and to Phyllis Somerville Rd., R.R. # 1, Box 361, Richards, as '32 Reunion chairman, Heintz i\JIalone on the sudden death on Basking Ridge, N. J. attended Alumnae Day with Mabel Barnes Feb. 21 of her husband. We are indebted to Roldah Northup Knauff. The Richardses are concentrating on Cameron '51, co-author of "Meet out Doc- perfecting their outdoor planting scheme. 1930 tors" in the December 1962 Alumnae An autumn trip to Nantucket. painting Marjorie L. Ritchie, 95 Myrtle St., Shel- News, for setting us straight on tWO points. and resting were anticipations for Mersh. First, Imogene Atanning and Jeannie Fusco ton, Conn. Grandchildren Lynn and Jeffry are "ador- Ruth Harrison Street's daughter Sally Ripka were not mentioned because they able and exhausting." Mersh promises a was married Apr. 28, 1962 to Burton A. were among nine of the twenty-one Reunion memo come January. Lois Rich- Sturner at the Park Lane Hotel in New CC doctors who did not return the ques- mond Baldwin continues as acquisitions York. Sally was graduated from Smith tionnaires on which the article was based. librarian at Elmira College. Her husband College and studied at Harvard. Her hus- Second, '31 is not the only class with is president of La France Export Corp. band is with United Aircraft Corporate more than one M.D. Four others have and travels extensively. The Baldwins Systems Center in Windsor Locks. Edith tWO and '47 has four. visited Puerto Rico, the Dominican Re- 117alter Samuels' son and daughter are "Ducky Freeman 1\7e1son reports that public, and Nassau last February. Daugh- married and she has three grandchildren. their eldesr, Donald 23, graduated from Edith teaches nursery school at the "Y," Dartmouth in '61 and married a '61 CC is taking college courses in education, and graduate, Gayle Crampton. He went to finds time to paint, golf, and bowL Edith DCS in Newport and is now a Lt. j. g. • Allen A-facDiarmid's son Allen, a navy They are living in Norfolk. Wendy 22 flier, has three children and is in the was graduated from Skidmore last June Rhoda Meltzer Gilinsky '49 is Orient. Allen is in a squadron attached and after working at Nantucket this sum" compiling a file on alumnae mer is now with the American Field Serv- to the Kearsarge, the carrier that picked authors in preparation for a the last two astronauts from the Pacific. ice in NYc. Bruce 21 is a senior at Col- Roy, an assistant professor at Tulane, and gate, a 220 lb. football tackle. Sally 15 forthcoming feature article. Will his wife spent the summer in Colombia, is a student at Montclair N. J. High alumnae authors and friends School. Michael 12 is in junior high. South America, where he was prospect- who know of alumnae authors ing for a group interested in mining. With mother and dad, the two younger Hugh worked for Pan American in Hono- children and rwo friends rravelled 11,000 kindly send their names, addres- miles to the west coast through national lulu until he went to Officer's Candidate ses, and lists of publications to: and state parks this summer. Ducky de- School. He is an ensign with an am- Mrs. Morton Gilinsky, Sykes phibious ourfir in Japan. Elizabeth, a scribes the trip as comical, for they pulled high school senior, is busy in many class a 16' trailer and "bear in trailer at Yel- Alumnae Center, Connecticut activities Edie and Elizabeth have been lowstone just like a Goldilocks story." In College. touring colleges recently. Elizabeth Per- October Ducky was off again to the wed- 31 DECEMBER 1963 rer Martha Blair lives in Albuq~lerque with the national convention of the So~iety Army, was married in Decem~,:.. Ham with Sandy 3. Lois' son is a Navy ll~uren- of American Foresters. Helen Laoietes Harbmger Stem jus~ re.turned. WIt' daugh- anr. Martha Sater ll7alker contributed Krosnick's daughter Ellen is a freshman ter Bonnie from M1am1, Mexico L:y, Las time and energy to the successful com- at cc. Vegas, 1. A., and San FranCISCO. , Adored bined College Evening last june for a California; if I were younger, I settle benefit at the Playhouse on ~he. Green, 1935 there" Bonnie is in her second ear at with CC as one of the beneficiaries. S~e Mrs. John B. Forrest (Betty Lou Bozell), Cenr~nary College! Debbie. recei ''- d her and sister Katherine had a European t.tlP 198 larchmont Ave., Larchmont, N. Y. Master's from Temple and IS no,' teach- in 1962. Freelance interior dec?ratIo? Mrs. H. Neal Karr (Petey Boomer), 50 ing in Ridley Park High Schoo.' "I'm keeps Marrh busy. Ellie Sherman Vtncent s Lafayette Place, Greenwich, Conn. doing a lot of grot;P .~ork besi. s ~y boys are Rag 21 at Duke, Chip 18 at Mary Blatchford Van Etten a~d Joey Student Trips and individual UH: ·,ranes. Yale and Rick 16 at Milton Academy. Ferris Ritter (co-chairmen of reunion) re- I'm still active wirh ce, The Expc, 'menr, Rag' and Chip spent. this summer work- mind all '35ers [hat our so-called 30th 1S and Friends Select." Teddy Bear L,...go 1S ing in Honolulu which presented a fine coming off in June 1964! busy packing and moving;. t~ey'''~ sold excuse for Ellie and Bob to have a two- The Wilkes College Beacon headlined their large house and are ~U11d1Og ~ small week visit there. Gert says, Yoerg Doran their regret ar losing Mademoiselle .Sylv:a one. She's still interested in ~eran~Ks ar:d 'Gone are the days of pick-up at 3 dif- enamelling on copper; she will winter 10 Dwo1ski after 15 years as professor 10 ~~e ferent schools, dancing classes, Cub Scouts, Modern Foreign language Dept. Sylvia s Palm Beach, where her husbar:d i,: golf etc. and sometimes I wish they were biographical sketch appears in Who's. Who pro. Her son is studying law 10 B:"ls~on; back." Son Bill 23 is a '62.graduate of of American \lVomen, Who's Who tn .the her daughter has 2 sons. Dr. Peg Creigb- the Univ. of New Hampshire, now at East, 117ho's Who in American EducatiOn, ton Green and husband Earl again were Fore Benning in the .Flying Tigers. headed the Directory of American Scholars, and hosts at the annual meeting at j.o-kson for Vietnam early 10 1964. Diane 21 in June she will receive i~ternarion,,:l Laboratory in Bar Harbor. Peg's I' -ojecr is in college, Mary 20 works in Boston, (done with a co-worker), a movie c the recognition by her inclusion 10 the and Bob, jr. is at Bowdoin. "Twelve-.vear D!- rectory of International Biography. Sylvia "Neurological Mutants of the Mouse." was old john, Bob, and rattle around In a r has accepted the chairmanship of t~e shown to the directors and trustees The very quiet house." Gert often sees Hort French Dept. at Saint Mary's College In two Drs. Green left shortly afrerwa -, to Alderman Cooke, who is chairman. of the Indiana, where she will supervise 5 full- attend the International Conzre of Western Mass. CC Club, planning an time and 2 pare-time teachers as well as Genetics at The Hague and then r : ted October reception for President Shain. direcr a language laboratory with 36 fully Holland. Eveline Bates Doob unexpc -dly Your correspondent, through a Manpower, equipped booths. went to Europe with her sister, er "ng Inc. introduction, accepted an arrracnve with an exciting week in Ireland. Hue' a-id Polly Spooner Hays IS still enjoying permanent position I~st. june .with a Leonard has been appointed Directc ~ of her traveling job for the NatIonal Field British Motor Corp. dlstnbutorshlp, serv· Social Sciences at Yale. Virginia C, fen Staff of the Girl Scouts. Her daughter icing 50 dealers from New York to West Kent is ptesident of the CC Club of r~n_ Virginia. Emily is a senior at CC; john is at Har- teal N. ].; she serves 00 the Board cf ~')i- vard Business; Barbara is in high school. The class extends its sympathy to Peg rectors for Far Brook School; is 3rd "JC:e- Pttdge Sawtelle Ehrlich is still teaching L6/and 11:7eir on the death of her father pres. of Overlook Hospital in .chart:~ ,)f aged 95. Mr. Leland was one of Har- singing and dancing; her daughter Sally and her husband and granddaughter Beth 150 Twig groups. Son jeffrey 1S a f,·.'"h- vard's five oldest living graduates. man at Univ. of Vermont; Susan, after two spent the summer wirh Pudge before re- turning to Colorado. Jane Cox Cosgrove vears at Vassar, is a senior at Univ_ of 1934 Calif. in Berkeley. Her doctor hush~nel had a wonderLI trip to Italy, where she Mrs. George Holtzman (Marion Bogatt), visited her sister in Rome. Two of her acts for the Chatham Community Players 7400 Lake View Drive, Apt. 407, Bldg. children are in college, two in high school, anel captains his 36-footer on which they 2, Bethesda, Md. 20034 two in grammar, and one daughter's hus- cruise at every opportunity. I was settled here in time for Jane band is in grad school. Nancy 117alker Jimmie Francis Toye reports a wonder- Petreqltin Hackenbmg to stay with fI.le Collins continues her work with the Univ. ful visit from Betty Merrill St~wa.'rt a~el while she went to school for a week 10 of Cincinnati Classics Dept. with her her husband, who were vacatlOnIng ll~ this area. While she was here we had greatest interest in pre-Classical Greek Europe away from the heat of SauclJ dinner with Jean Stanley Dise in Vir- Archeology. All her spare rime is spent Arabia. The Stewarts will be retired and ginia. Andy Crocker Wheeler is going to with her teen-age Michael and Elisabeth. back in the USA in ll.bour a year. jimmie be our Reunion Chairman in place of Har·riette Webster Kyn,dberg expects to and family went to Lucerne for two weeks Camille Sams Lightner; Alison Jacobs Mc- have four grandchildren visiting for three at the International Music Festival. At Bride will work with her as will our months this winter "Our daughter, their home she's been Children's Officer for treasurer, Helen Lavietes Krosnick. All of mother, is moving from Argentina to fourteen years; has her charges so wel!- these plus Alice Taylor Gorham and Elea- Mexico and stopping here en route. Since trained she's able to golf, roo. Daughter nor Hine Kram were at the college for their ages are 6, 4, 2, and 1, we antici- Mary finished college and has star~ed Alumnae Council. They had lunch with pate an early departure for our winter teaching in Cambridge; son John, WIth Emily Smith, who was back with some Arizona trip to turn the house over to brilliant marks, has one more year there. prospective students. Dody Merrill Dor- all of them. 1 spoiled our plans for an Millie Drowne Hill and her husband have man is nominating chairman. Jane Trace Argentine trip last winter by having a just ended their fifteenth year running Spragg surprised Dody by dropping in on heart block, but managed 3 months in Lakeview Inn and Cottages in Wolfeboro. her return trip from delivering her son Tucson. Planning on going to Hawaii this Her son Norman is manager of Wilcox to Wesleyan and her daughter ro Har- winter. Golfing, gardening and Ravinia Hal! at Princeton. When she took her vard. Alison Jacobs McBride's daughter concens fill my summer. Am American daughter Sue to Lake Erie CoIIe.g:e, she Nancy was married this summer. Alison's Red Cross representative ro Downey Vet- had a good visit with Ginm IFhitney husband spent the night with us here in erans' Hospital and keeo busy recruiting AfcKee. Kay Woodward Cttrtiss and D. C. and brought us up to date on the and organizing Gray Ladies there." family are busy with a new summer camp news. My son in the Coast Guard has Maude Rademan Hickey is grandmother on Lake Winnipesaukee-"hope to have been ttansferred to Ketchikan, Alaska and heat soon so we can ski too. Tn between to son Terry's first son; Brian was gradu- I have given him Lena l'P'a/decker Gil- ated from Dartmouth and is now working baby-sitting for my 2-year-old grands~n, more's address. 1 hear from friends that at Best Foods in Rochester; Lynne is a Mike, I study anc! mtor in Remedml she is fine. RIma Kennel Varley is going freshman at Skidmote. Doris Mercham Reading for Westchester Children's to do a repeat of last summer's trip Wiener loves living "practically in the Assoc." Helen Fine writes that she's a through the Orient and so probably wilI lap of the White House;" her step-son "social worker who'lI never set the world not be able to make reunion. Grace Nich- Tom, parent of a daughter, is the nuclear on fire." but we note she's received an is busy as chairman of the ols Rhodes reactor officer aboard the submarine Skib- MSW in 1961 from the Uoiv. of Con- Ladies' Activiries Program in connection jack,' Frederick, now in Germany with the necticut and is working in Hartford at Blue Hills Hospital, a state operated 32 CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ALUMNAE NEWS when they are returning co Mexico for facility for the treatment of alcoholism. the usual chauffeur of children to every ac- the second go-round. trene Larson Gearing's daughter Ann is tivity imaginable. Prances Resb CaldwelL Dorothy Barbour while visiting her daughter and a freshman at Hood College; son John 9 writes, 'We are still dyed-in-the-smog Slavich, two grandchildren in Lafayette, spent a will keep things lively at home. Irene Californians and will stay forever. Bought day with Janet. Dorothy's younger daugh- reaches kindergarten. Bobbie Birney Pratt a home in Altadena Foothills north of tee is a freshman at Beloit College. Hav- held a family picnic reunion at her home Pasadena and move in June. Bill is still ing just taken her ewe step-sons to Culver in Plymouth; present were Irene Larson administrator at Hollywood Presbyterian Military Academy, Dorothy may look for Gearing, Kay jenks Morton, Subbie Burr Hospital. We are holding our breath while a job. Midge Maas Haber is now among Sanders, Marty Warre'n Rankin, Joey Fer- we steer 3 through college; Joy is a junior ris Ritter, Dot Schaub Sch'warzkopf, l\Jlari01t in International Relations at UCLA; Larry the grandmothers of the class. Her daughter Marion, CC '61, had a son last and ac U. of C. at Santa Barbara in Engineer- IVbite Van der Leur, Mary AL Davis April. Nancy, her younger daughter, is ChappeLL. Subbie writes of herself, "There ing; Carolyn finishing high school in one a high school senior this year. jea1z Clarke is no rime hanging heavy-golf, Meals on Great Fling. We keep constant Open Lay is busy keeping up with a household Wheels, and church work interfere wirh House." Dickie \'(IormeLLePatten and her of rwo teen-age girls and a nine-year-old housework, thank goodness!" Only An- husband rented their Cape home this sum- boy plus a part-rime job as educational rhony 14 is at home now; two older boys mer and went to their camp in Maine with secretary in an elementary school. are senior and sophomore ar Springfield a side trip to Nova Scotia. Dickie rore a cartilage in her knee and is on and off Dorothy Kelsey Rouse runs the Rouse College; third entered the Navy at Great Real Estate Agency which she and her hus- Lakes Training Station in September. crutches or cane these days. Son Charles is a junior in Tilton; Midge IS starting band organized three years ago. Her hus- Betty Gerhart Richards, as vice-pres. of band srill has his position in the Mechan- the Board of Directors, is deep in plans junior high. ical Engineering Dept. of Anaconda Amer- for the 50th Anniversary Ball for the ican Brass Co. in Waterbury. Their son Nutley Family Service Bureau. She's also 1936 Wesley Jr. graduated last spring from the v.p. of the Red Cross in her area. Her Mrs. Vincent N. Harnmersren (Shirley Dure), 150 Benvenue s-, Wellesley 81, Univ. of Connecticut with a degree in husband has just finished 30 years with horticulture. This fall he goes to the Hoffman LaRoche, Inc. where he is Di- Mass. Nancy Hooker Peters' son Tom is at Univ. of Tennessee for his Master's. Their rector of Sales Operations for Roche Labo- daughter Betsy is a junior at Southbury ratories. Their son, Parke III, was gradu- rhe Perkins Institute in Watertown, Mass., where he is manager of the wrestling and High. iHim Everett Mac1trda and her hus- ated Cum Laude from Princeton in ] une, band celebrated their 25th anniversary on has entered San Francisco Seminary and track teams. In March he was awarded the big P honors award for excellence in that Sept. 11. Mim's daughter Judy enters CC is planning to follow his grandfather this fall; her son Bill is a junior at Bald- Richards as a Presbyterian minister. capacity'. Nancy is an Instructor in Prin- ciples of Nursing, and Acting Assistant win-Wallace College. Betsy Beals Steyaart Daughter Judy, in high school, was the and Pete celebrate their 25th Oct. 15. excuse for a trip through the south- Director of the Meriden Hospital School college hunting. Dot Schaub Schwarzkopf of Nursing. Gladys jeffers Kerr has been busy playing golf with her children, David 1937 Kurt and tWO younger children are having Dorothy E. Baldwin, 109 Christopher Sr., a five weeks' Grand Tour of Europe in and Karen. Karen attends Wyoming Sem- Montclair, N. J. their Microbus. Toward the end of the inary in Kingston, Pa. EveLyn Kelly Head's first-born graduated from Simmons in Shirley Sackett Railing has had a grand rour they are picking up their two older summer touring Europe with her husband boys who have spent the summer work- 1960, married in 1961, and has presented them with an adorable grandson who is and daughter. Ned is running for the New ing on the estate farm of Baron von Finck. Jersey Assembly on the Republican ticket. Betty Bets Sturges has been painting por- now 15 months old. Her second girl finished a year at Simmons and this Sep- Dorothy \'(1aring Smith, her husband and traits and is active in several social service rwo youngest had a wonderful trip living agencies-Girl's Service League especially. rember enters Tobe-Coburn School for Fashion Careers in N. Y. Evelyn herself and traveling with a German couple this She sounds like a real New Yorker, artend- returned to school a few years ago and summer. Her daughter Majorie is a ing concerts, galleries, parties, a trip to earned her Master's degree. She is teach- freshman at Radcliffe. Her son, now a Europe last year and another this year. Her ing 3rd grade in Stamford. Patty Hall junior in high school playing soccer, won son Terry is teaching for a year follow- Staton is Director of Home Economics trophies in sailing this summer. Dot is ing service in the Marines and before go- busy in school affairs, Quaker committees ing to graduate school; daughter Pamela, for the Boston office of Kenyon & Eck- hardt, Inc., advertising agency. One and horticulture. Doris Wheeler Oliver married to a Stanford grad student, is has just completed six years as treasurer studying at the Univ. of Calif.; daughter daughter is at the Art Students League in N. Y. and the other daughter is a senior of her local Girl Scouts and is now treas- Abigail is at Vassar. at Beaver Country Day School. urer of Episcopal Churchwomen. Dobbie MadLyn Hughes Wasley and Francis Agatha husband is Professor and her husband have a small collection have all the children in school-Ethel lHcGuire DagbLian's and Assistant Chairman of English at In- of American art. They have traveled a lot Walker, Vassar, and Baldwin-Wallace and diana Univ. Their daughter Alice will in Europe in the past few years. Their have started on a meandering trip begin- be a sophomore at CC this fall. They eldest daughter is a senior at Mr. Hol- ning with the Vermont foliage and ending have a daughter in 10th grade and a son yoke, another daughter is a senior in high at Miami Beach. Hugs will attend the in 7th grade. Jane Cadwell Lott was in school, and their son is a junior. Eliza- National Girl Scout Convention there (as Florida in July, then visited Kay Brace beth von Colditz Bassett has added a president of the Conn. Yankee Girl Scout Cummings in New Jersey. The first of young niece and nephew to her family. Council) while Francis goes bone fish- September they will be off to the Bahamas Bettina 21, her eldest, transferred from ing ar Key Largo. Vi'fginia Tice Thomas' for ten days of fishing. Their son is a Hood to Univ. of Louisville. Her sao is oldest daughter Carolyn 21 is a sen- senior at Dartmouth. With all seven chil- a senior in high school, and Ruth, the ior at CC; Joel 20 is a junior at Trinity; dren at home this summer, Patty Burton youngest, is a sophomore. Betsy had an youngest daughter is a senior in high Burton has been kept busy. Their oldest accident skiing last winter but has re- school and plans to attend a junior col- boy is out of the service and working. covered so that she still gets in her golf. lege. 'We have organized a CC alumnae Mike, the second boy, is a junior at Wes- Elizabeth Schlesinger \'(/agner is working group in Columbus and enjoy welcoming leyan. Their 16-year-old daughter spent for a doctor. Her son Ken is in his third new members." Ceil Silverman G'fodner half the summer visiting and studying in year of pre med. A planned trip north has 5 children in school from first grade to had to be put off because another son sophomore at Uciv. of Buffalo. She is Ecuador. Janet ALexander McGeorge writes from came down with mononeudeosis. Char- continuing her Baby-Sitter Service; is Mid Valley, Calif. that her husband and lotte Sharp Wheeler's oldest daughter chairman of American Affairs and board she have just spent a week in Seattle with Frederica graduated from Vassar in June member of Hadassah; vice-pres. in charge their older son who is with a shipping line and is now at the Univ. of Virginia get- of programming at Women's Auxiliary of there. Her younger son in college is ting her M.A. in political science. Her Congregational Emanu-el, Sunday School thinking of law. Janet has been studying second daughter, Kendall, is in her first teacher of Bible, sophomore class mother, Spanish. Their real vacation is in October year at Denison Univ. member of "Y" taking special courses and 33 DECEMBER 1963 Charlotte Calscell Stokes' son Frank is summer trip to Europe will be working conductor and their chlidren were in the in the Peace Corps in Liberia. Another for her Master's at Boston Univ. School at chorus. Her husband is vice president and son is at the New York School of Interior Social work. Johnny Deitz attends Worces" production manager of Miller-Johnson Design, a daughter is at Lake Erie Col- set Academy. Mintz wrote that Anne Gil- Adv. Printers. They have three girls and lege, and her youngest son is still in high dersteeoe Blackman's daughter was gradu- a boy. Peggy graduated from CC last school. Chinn is busy learning to be a ated from Rollins. From California, we spring and IS now teaching at Crystal volunteer guide at the Philadelphia Mu- hear that Audrey Kroese A'laron's oldest Springs School for Girls in Hillsboro, seum of Art. She and her husband flew son, Tom, goes to DePauw in Indiana and Calif, Susan is a junior at Cc. Both girls west this summer to meet their two young- that her second son, Andy, is headed for followed their mother's happy experience est and all camped out through the Rock- West Point. After a brief rest following of living in the "Co-op" dorm at Cc. ies. Elizabeth Chaffee McCabe's husband reunion, Fran Willson RUSJeli and her Mary Ann, daughter of Marion- deBarbieri has his own real estate and insurance busi- family cook off for a combined business- Goiart, is a junior at CC this year also. ness, is a past president of the Real Estate pleasure trip in Nassau. They cried fishing Dolly Rose Golan is attending Simmons Board, and at present is a member of the for tuna but managed to land only bar- in Boston. Nancy Tremaine DeWoody, real estate advisory committee of the Secre- racudas. While in Boothbay Harbor, Me., married co a lawyer, has a son who is now tary of State of New York. She has two I talked to Janette Austin Steane. 1 had a graduate chemistry srudenr at Western daughters: Carol 20, a junior at Baldwin- missed seeing her on the previous day when Reserve University. His college graduation \Xf allace College, and Betsy 15, a sopho- rhey had been out on their boat to watch and a trip abroad three years ago are the more in high school. Betty is involved in the sailing races and been caught in an highlights in recent news from Nancy. community activities, church school, scour- unexpected fog bank. She said it was iHarie J'(/hitweU Gilkeson and her hus- ing, and is past chairman of Junior League quite a terrifying experience coming home band, executive vice-president of Phila- Sustainers. Besides all this she still has by instruments. Ronnie Mansul' Fallon has delphia Electric Co., have five children. time for gold, gardening, bridge, antiquing, moved back to Grafton, Mass. Her hus- Kay is attending Colby Jr. College and and traveling to Florida and the Carib- band William has been named president of Dick is at Cornell. Patricia Hubbat-d bean. Janet Thor-n IVaesche is active in Norton International Inc. in Worcester. Brooks, married to a vice-president of Coast Guard Wives Club and Kappa Betty Fairbank Swayne missed reunion bur Chase Manhattan Bank, has a son John Mothers Club. Her daughter Judy gradu- she and her husband Jay quietly celebrated at Northwood School. Pat is still riding ated from the Univ. of Washington and their 25th wedding anniversary in May. horses, playing golf, and complaining is now working for a legal firm. Marilla Their oldest son, John B. 111, is in Army about cold weather. They visited Jamaica is a junior, a folk singer in the local Intelligence in California; Lewis is in Army and Haiti in 1960. When they went to Hootenanny, and a social worker at the Security in Germany after graduating from Europe in 1961 and drove through France, state children's home. Russ, a junior in Ft. Devens last spring; their youngest Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Belgium, high school, made a trip to Alaska as son, Bob, attends George School. l eus and England, they were most impressed by a mess boyan a rug last summer. J ilfian Rothensies Johns and Cricket Myel'S Mc- the pride of the people in the care of has just started kindergarten. Elizabeth Lean enjoyed a little reunion of their own their land, animals, parks, and buildings, Schiemann Tete' is recording secretary for at Princeton when they discovered that the lack of waste, and their cleanliness Lutheran welfare. Her daughter Sue 21 their husbands were classmates. Cricket and evident enjoyment of the land. IS ro be married in February and will has both of her boys in college this year, Mat'ion Grable Nicholson and her hus- graduate from Cedar Crest College in HuH a sophomore at the Uruv. of Colorado band, a vice-president of Union Carbide, June. She has two active boys, Jim 14 at Boulder and Bill a freshman at the have a daughter, Jan, their eldest, start- and Steve 11. Her husband is active in Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ing at Duke University this year. Marion PT~ an.d c~urch work. Elise Thompson Frances IVatku Chase and her sister-in- recently worked on a publicity committee Beilen hves 10 New York, but summers in law, Betty Chase Scully, both have daugh- tor New Eyes for the Needy. "Stevie" her home in Sherman, Conn., where she ters at CO~lO'. College. Anne Scully en- Ellen Mayl Herbericb, who was a Ger- an~ her husband are busy clearing land. tered her juruor year and Liza Chase is man major, continued to study with Grace Elise rook a trip to Mexico this sum- a sophomore. L~slie (she taught singing at CC) and has mer. He.r three children, two girls and a We extend sympathy to Jane Swayne given programs in Cleveland and Akron, son~ are 10 school, the eldesr in 8th grade. Stott on the death of her husband last including songs in German, French, ~e~J(:les her family, church and school ac- August and to Frances lValker Chase Italian, and English. She now does pro- tJVlt1~S keep Elise busy. !Winifred Seale whose husband passed away a year ago. ' fessional community work, for example as Cofftn hopes to be a Gray Lady this fall. chairman of opera for the Children's Con- She plays golf, rides a bicycle, and swims. 1939 cert Society which meant 10 performances Her daughter, Elaine, an "AU student on Mrs. F. Eugene Diehl (Janet Jones), 67 by a professional group in the high schools the Dean's list every semester, is a senior Jordan Sr., Skaneateles, N. Y. for the first time in Akron. Stevie's hus- at Flonda State and will graduate in April. Upon graduating from CC Marthe M. band is president of Herbench-Hail-Harter She has worked two months at Electro- Beeene Cooper, our French Exchange Stu- and Bankers and they have a son who is a Mechanical Research, where Winifred has dent '37-'39, received an M.A. at Cornell s~nior at \Villiams College. For his 21st been fo~ fourteen years. Elaine has studied plus post graduate work at Columbia. She birthday they gave Dick an absolutely top- 10 Mexico; she hopes to be a bi-lingual taught at Elmira College, CC (one year), ~ecretarr after graduation. Son Larry is notch, all-out lawn party, tents, lights, etc. Russell-Sage, and Driplos College. After plus 200 guests. Stevie plans on a trip In servI~e stationed in England. He and the war, Marthe made trips to Europe this. October to northern Italy and southern ~hree fnends are caking an extended trip every summer with groups of college stu- 10 Europe. Spain. She and Sis Ake Bronson hope to den.ts. She was married 10 years ago in be at our 25th reunion, P~ns to an Amer-ican who is now with Ruthie Hate Buchanan and her hus" 1938 SlQger Mfg. Co. in New York, and they band went on a ten-day vacation in Mrs. William B. Dolan (M. C. Jenks), are very happily raising a blond family Mexico C.ity and Acapulco, where they had 755 Great Plain Ave., Needham, Mass. of 5. They all travel to Europe every spent their honeymoon 23 years ago. They 02192 oth~r year or so when they are nOt at spend a great deal of their time traveling. Our class fund agent chairman is A:u- the~r large house in Jamaica, N. Y. or at Two years ago they went around the gusta Straus Goodman (Mrs. Raben C.) the~r newly purchased Cottage at Hyannis. world visiting heads of state that they Since marrying into the Navy, Lee Neaher Marthe nor I has heard from ha~ entertained when her husband was liValse1' Jones has moved about thirty times Ursula, our German Exchange student Chlef of :rrotocol. They plan to go to and expects to be on the go again. Her since the war. Have you? Marthe plan~ Europe thiS fall but are spending a few oldest boy, Barton Jr. 19, attends Colorado to attend our 25th reunion in June. months of each year in Newport, R. 1., State Un,iv.; Richard 17 plans to prep for . Helena (Le~) Jenks Rafferty is secretary where they recently bought a summer Annapolis; Betry Lee 14 has been attend- 10 the local hlgh school (Meriden, Conn.) hO~lse. In spite of all this activity, Ruth ing school in Winchester, Mass. lIiajorie ~nd tells of the spiritual uplift she felt Mintz Deitz's daughter Jane was graduated wtltes that the most important event to III .a performance of the "Messiah' in her in the last t':""o years was becoming a from the Univ. of Michigan and after a whICh she was soloist; her husband was the grandmother. Wlth her husband with the 34 CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ALUMNAE NEWS Marine Corps, jil1ny IValton lVIagee has joyed seeing the area again. small jaunts about twice a year. When ar done her share of moving around. While Jim and Barry Beach Alter are in the home, Bobby does a great deal of enter- stationed at Newport, R. 1., they were able States on a ten-month furlough from their taining, a full time job for her. She had to get down to see the CC campus. Now missionary work as directors of the Chris- the "smashing" experience of christening in Portsmouth, Va., Jinny occasionally sees rain Retreat and Study Centre at Dehra a cargo liner a year ago for the Farrell AJarjorie johnston Rawls. The Magees have Dun, India. They spent three weeks va- Lines. lr was named the "African Dawn" a boy at Fishburne Military School and a cationing in Maine with Martha, who left and plies the seas between America and daughter at Beaver College. Barbara Curtis Ind ia two years ago to go to CC, and Africa. On its maiden voyage it broke the Rutherford has a daughter doing cancer Barry's parents. Now they are at Prince- speed record by six hours. Bobby and the research work after graduating from Whea- ton Theological Seminary. Jim is a con- captain keep in touch, and some day she ton and a son attending Bowdoin College. sultant for the United Presbyterian Com- intends to go along as a passenger. Barbara and her husband, a lawyer take a mission in NYC. Their sons John 16 and Lase summer C. I. and Sue Spragtee ;Horse cruised for a week at a time off vacation to the Caribbean or Puerto Rico Tommy 13 are with them in Princeton. every winter. The whole family do a great Aud1'ey Nordq1eist O'Neill wrote of a Cape Cod in a Sea Sprite, a dream come true. The twO younger children, Weld 12 deal of camping including an across-the- successful eye operation a year ago. She country trip with the bulk of their time has a new half of eyelid: 36 stitches! and Tenley 7 sailed with them; John and Sally worked all summer, as befits college spent in the western states and British Contrasting with that good news is the students. John is a senior at the Univ. Columbia. Lasr year they camped through sadness of a lengthy illness of her father of New Hampshire, and Sally is co-skipper New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, and his death last May. "In January Lou of Sailing Club and on the Dean's lise at the Gaspe Peninsula and Eastern Canada. took over 450 acres in Hunrerdon County, Connecricur. Weld and Tenley are at Eleanor (Pe·rky) Clarkson Rine lives CALIFORNIA 9 Carafa Terrace, North I-IHen, Conn. (co-pres.) Northern. Calijomia: New London; Kay Wieland Brown (Mrs. A. Merrill, Ill) '59 M. Enid Sivigny Oorvine (Mrs. William) '51- 75 Lancaster A venue, Kentfield. California !':I3 Granada Terrace, New London, Connecticut The Peninsula: Waterb-ury; Margaret Lafore Moltzen (Mrs. Allan R.) '41 Lois Fenton Pickett (Mrs. Walter M., Jr.) '45 124 Hedge Road, Menlo Park, California North Street, Middlebury, Connecticut Southern California: DELAWARE Ruth Goodhue Voorhees (Mrs. Donald) '46 (Chm.) Wilmington: 9 Sorrel Lane, Rolling Hills Estates, Calif. Joan Gaddy Ahrens (Mrs. Herbert, Jr.) '56 COLORADO ~621 Pecksuiff Road, North; Wilmington 8, Del. DenVC1": DlSTRICT OF COLUMBIA Jean Ann Temple Davis (Mrs. William M.) '45 Washington: 540 Circle Drive, Denver 6, Colorado Jane TIlley Griffin (Mrs. Edward C.) '48 .:1951 Langley Court, N. W., Apt. E, Washington ]6, D. C. CONNECTICUT lLLINOIS Pairjield County: Chicago: Mariechen Wilder Smith (Mrs. George D.) '45 Lorraine Pimm Simpson (Mrs. Richard H.) '47 68 Camp Avenue, Darien, Connecticut 869 Pine Street, winnetka, Illinois Havtjord: JNDIANA Carol Hilton Reynolds (Mrs. Junius Marvin) '55 hulianapolis: 8 Squadron Line Road, Simsbury, Connecticut Marilyn Raub Creedon (Mrs. Richard 0.) '50 Litchfield County: 129 East 50th Street, Indianapolis 5, Indiana Dorothea Cramer '24 KENTUCKY 113 Pearl Street, Torrington, Connecticut Louisville: 1\1eriden- Wallingjord: Barbara Gold Zingman (Mrs. Edgar) '50 Helen Crumrine Ehler (Mrs. Allyn F.) '48 610 Jarvis Lane, Louisville 7, Kentucky I Wilson Avenue, Wallingford, Connecticut MAINE New Haven: Southern Maine: Louise Reichgott Endel (Mrs. Charles) '43 Amy Hilker Biggs (Mrs. Wesley M.) '24 15 Vista Road, North Haven, Conn. (co-pres.) 16 Green Street, Norway, Maine Barbara Gahm Walen (Mrs. Edward) '44 continued She and Werner look forward to seeing searcher in the Dept. of Neuropathology at Gould and her husband live in Jamaica Steve and judy Klein Goteis, who are M Harvard Medical School. Anne reports Plain, Mass., where Cindy IS teaching Ohio State this year. joyce Heal Payer and that Susie Miller has left for an indefinite Ray are still in Mystic, Conn. Joyce is stay in Europe. Attending Ann Morris in 1963 working at the Hartford National Bank. her wedding were Carolyn Young and Anne S. Ryan, 626 Sasr 14th Sr., Apt. 18, Pat Ingala has returned from a year spent Chris Brendel. Ed and Ann are living in New York City, N. Y. at the Univ. of Florence studying Michael- Florida, where Ed is a iieurenanr in the MARRIED: Pamela Work to Richard C. angelo's poetry. Now she is studying Air Force. Ann is teaching 3rd grade at Anthony, June 1. in New York; Joan Italian literature at Rutgers. She was in Eglin Air Force Base. Bill and Pam Page Snyder to Charles Ablesoc, June 15. in Ann Morris' wedding along with Suzy Leckonby are living in Hawaii, where Bill Baltimore; Gale Flannery to Robert G. Sterner and Sesi \'(/ells. Lin and Yuri are is stationed wirh the Navy. They see Tunnell, jr., June 15, in London, England; living in Cambridge, England, while Yu n Ken and Anne Goodwin \IVagner quite Heather Axelrod to David Alberts. June studies on a three-year Marshall scholar- often. Pokey Reed Gardner, besides being 16, in Highland Park, 1Il.; Karen Weis to ship. Woody Irving Tucker and Donald a new mother, is secretary to james Me- Laurence LeWinn, June 23, in Highland are living in Philadelphia, where Donald Gregor Burns. She is also a board mem- Park, Ill.; CaroLyn Winters to Howard is in his third year at Univ. of Penn. Law ber and chairman of the United Nations McMicheel, Ir., June 29, in New Rochelle, School. Connie Kaufman Dickinson is liv- unit in the LWV. Dee is teaching Amer- N. Y.; Cynthia Norton to Stephen Ripley, ing in Florida, where Peter is in the Navy. ican History at Williams as well as setting June 29, in Fairfield, Conn.; Alice Corley Their wedding was a reunion for many up the new residential system to replace to \'7illiam Avery, Aug. l7, in Wasbing- classmates, including Rosemary Wilson the fraternity system. Susan Robertson ton, D. c.; Susan Stietzel to John Schilke, lencees, Lee Knowlton Parker, Sandra Lov- Richards and Jack are now in Montreal, Aug. 24, in South Norwalk. Conn.; Mary ing, Louise Rosenthal, joan Diceieson where Jack is in his third year medicine at Meade iHcConnelt to David C. Lowance, Karter, and Ted McConnel '63. Connie McGill and Sue is teaching kindergarten. Aug. 24, in Brevard, N. c.; Susan Fuld to is teaching English in a high school m Susan Kimberly '61 was maid of honor at Michael Buchsbaum, Sept. 22, in New jacksonville. john and Lee Knowlton the Richard's wedding. Susan Rowe is ar York. Parker are living on Union College cam- the Graduate School of International Working in Boston and sharing an pus, where john is associate director of ad- Affairs at the Univ. of Pittsburgh. Kay apartment are: Milbrey Walij,~, Diane missions. Bridesmaids at Lee and john's Steu'art Ferris is enjoying her work in the Lewis, Catherine Rowe, and Anne Parting- wedding were Mary Aswell and Connie Waterbury, Conn. hospital laboratory. Her ton. Also working in the Boston vicinity: Kaufman. Mary is back teaching at the husband is presently in the six months Gale Flannery Tunneli and Lecie Sheldo·n. Garrison Forest School. The Parkers spent program with the Army. Ginny JI7ardner In New York: Alison Coleman in the their honeymoon in the Canadian Rockies. has returned from Europe and is studying executive training program at Bonwir Tel- Barbara Levine received her degree from history of art at Columbia. Solveig lYIei· lers; Linda Leibman with the U.S. Mis- Brandeis Univ. and is in her second year land will leave her fascinating job as sion to the U.N.; Susan Arthur with Me- of law school at Boston College. Roz Lis- coordinator, Radio Programs for Freedoms Grew-Hill: lo Lindseth with A.F.S.; Liz ton has left her job at Look Magazine Foundation at Valley Forge, for marriage in Bartlett with IBM; Anne Ryan apprentice and is traveling west to Seattle. Poly Dem- November. Lynda Wieland is living in taxidermisr at The American Museum of ing, Susannah Miller, joan Corrigan Engle· Cambridge, Mass. and teaching social scud- Natural History; Susan Schiffman at hard, and Carolyn Winters '63 were ies and science in Brookline. Joan Po- NYU, MAT program; Amelia Fait study· bridesmaids at Anne McClain's wedding. piolek Cope received her M.A.T. from the ing ballet at the American Ballet School' Anne and Dexter are living in Cambridge. Univ. of Bridgeport and is teaching 3rd Teed McConnell Lowance and Gael Do: where Anne has a job as assistant re- grade in Fairfield, Conn. Cindy Sacknoff hany at Columbia Teachers College. DECEMBER 1963 41 ** Announcing THE DR. J. C. TAYLOR GROVES 10% of price of orders INDIAN RIVER RIDGE CITRUS from CC alumnae will go to the 1963-64 BOX 86, WABASSO, FLORIDA 32970 Alumnae Annual Giving Prograr Raymond K and Lorena Taylor Peny '26 Owners and Operators Half Bush, PRICES FOR FRUIT IN CARTONS: Bushels Ali Oranges (Pineapple, Temple or Valencia in season) or Tangerines $5.00 $3.00 2.60 Marsh Seedless Grapefruit 3.85 2.90 Mixed 4.75 Special Gift Pack - (same fruit as above but including tropical jellies, candies and/or pecans) 6.50 4.00 (all above plus express below) EXPRESS RATES to Conn., R. I., Mass., N. Y, N. J., Penna., Ohio, Ill., Ind. (Other states on request): per bushel-- $3.05; per half bushel-$2.1O. Prices for fruit in baskets: $.15 extra per bushel, $.10 one address. There is a 10% discount on fruit price extra per half bushel. Specify whether carton or basket season orders (5 or more, at one time or at incerva desired. Ask for express savings on Jot shipments to ordered by one party). Ann Pass Gourley (Mrs. Robinson B.) '50 CLUB PRESIDENTS continued 124 Circle Road, Syracuse 10, New York Nassau-Suffolk: MASSACHUSETTS Lois B. Keating '54 Boston: 24A Prospect Avenue, Port Washington, New York Dorothy Friend Miller (Mrs. joseph B.) '32 43 Old Middlesex Road, Belmont 78, Massachusetts New York Cit)': Western Mossacliuseus: Janet E. Torpey '56 Hortense Alderman Cooke (Mrs. Donald P.) '32 83-73 Charleccte Ridge, Jamaica 32, New York 130 Woodbridge Street, South Hadley, Mass (temp) no chester: Worcester: janet Regottaz Bickal (Mrs. Robert) '49 Edna Roth Griffith (Mrs. RobertK.) '42 726 Harvard Street, Rochester f O, New York 26 Laurel wood Road, Holden, Massachusetts westchester: Naomi Kissling Esser (Mrs. P. Boice) '40 MICHIGAN 356 Old Colony Road, Hartsdale, New York Birmingham: Ethel Moore w.n, (Mrs. Theodore H.) '41 OHIO 852 Puritan, Birmingham, Michigan Akron: Elizabeth Ross Raish (Mrs. Paul L.) '28 MINNESOTA 104 Mayfield Avenue, Akron 3, Ohio Twin Cities: Cincinnati: Georgia Geisel Littlefield (Mrs. Paul A.) '55 Marjorie Batsuer Wetsel (Mrs. Robert) '43 8609 Kell Avenue South, Minneapolis 31, Minnesota 1229 Rookwood Drive East, Cincinnati 8, Ohio MISSOURI Cleveland: St. Louis: Betty Jan~ Palm~r A]~xander (Mrs. Jay Park) '38 Miriam Steinberg Edlin (Mrs. Joseph J.) '46 7040 Carnage Hdl Dnve, #204, Brecksville 41, Ohio I Glocca Mora Lane. St. Louis 24·, Missouri Columbus and Cetuml Ohio: Virginia Tice Thomas (Mrs. David H.) '35 NEW JERSEY 2562 Bexley Park, Columbus 9, Ohio Bergen Count»: Lois Riley ~iskine (i\frs. Donald '-\T.) '37 PENNSYLVANIA 350 West RIdgewood Avenue, Ridgewood, New jersey Phiiadelpliia: Central New Jersey: Alice Hess Crowell (Mrs. David) '50 Virginia Golden Kent (Mrs. Donald F.) '35 6~4 General Knox Road, Wayne, Pennsylvania 57 Dunbar Street, Chatham, New Jersey Pittsb-urgh: Essex Count»: Janice .Cleary P~rker .(iVfrs. Nathan K., Jr.) '53 l\!arg~ret Royall H.inck (Mrs. Edwin B.) '33 118 Wdmar Drive, Pittsburgh 38, Pennsylvania 2/~ North Mountain Ave., Upper Montclair, N. J. WISCONSIN Princeton: I'dihscukee: Janet Callaghan Blattner ,(Mrs. Donald.J.) '49 Louise Schwanz COla (Mrs. Norman D., j r.) '45 276 Shadybrook Lane, Princeton. New Jersey 1810 E. Hampton Ave., Milwaukee 17, Wisconsin (Chill.) NEW YORK "Not d.ub I~resident; acting correspondent. Club is pres- "Central New York: ently macnve. 42 CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ALUMNAE NEWS 1963·64 ALUMNAE ANNUAL GIVING PROGRAM Financial Goal - $100,000 Participation Goal - 100% PERCENT + PERCENT = 100% -----Your Participation Counts! CLASS ACHIEVEMENT IN 1962·63 AAGP % % Class No. Alumnae Amount Class No. AlumnCle Amount 1941 153 $1,820.00 43.8 1919 59 $ 614.00 50.8 158 1,627.75 36.1 1920 60 434.00 46.7 1942 1943 135 1,490.00 48.9 1921 36 885.00 44.4 120 1,343.00 49.2 1922 37 418.50 67.6 1944 1945 149 1,701.50 43.6 1923 77 721.00 42.9 1946 171 1,328.50 38.6 1924 79 690.00 34.2 1947 154 989.00 29.9 1925 63 773.00 41.3 1948 179 2,502.00 37.4 1926 71 1,155.00 52.1 1949 179 2,538.00 39.1 1927 100 1,132.00 49.0 1950 188 1,425.00 39.4 1928 122 2,317.00 47.5 1951 149 2,188.38 38.9 1929 96 718.00 49.0 1952 183 2,641.00 35.0 1930 102 1,188.58 36.3 152 1,280.00 34.2 1931 124 2,771.00 38.7 1953 1954 155 1,260.00 49.1 1932 106 640.00 28.3 1955 140 2,004.00 48.6 1933 107 550.50 33.6 1956 167 647.15 31.1 1934 111 794.00 38.7 1957 161 945.36 38.5 1935 110 1,090.06 33.6 1958 139 348.00 24.5 1936 126 948.75 34.9 1959 175 1,131.85 26.9 1937 132 815.00 20.5 1960 155 2,555.63 28.4 1938 128 1,045.00 26.6 1961 152 648.00 33.6 1939 124 1,177.00 41.9 1962 196 407.98 27.0 1940 146 1,243.00 31.5